Hey Buz,
This used to be more noticeable in older machines and older software.
My opinion of what you are dealing with, is how much the program is in resident memory (using your 1 gig RAM) and how much has been "paged" (stored on the hard-drive). Software that is inactive often gets "paged" while the software you are using is loaded into resident memory.
The loading of programs from the harddrive into resident memory is why there is always a delay starting up any program.
There used to be an old problem of programs staying "resident" even after they were closed, causing slow down of all other programs then having to page more often to use the remaining resident memory. This is also what some of the adware programs do too - take up resident memory as they collect information on your use of the computer.
Enjoy.
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