Before we start suggesting he switch out memory sticks, why not have him check the Performance tab in the Task Manager? (CTRL-ALT-DEL, Task Manager, click 'Processes' tab, look at your page file (PF) usage.) What I think of as good memory isn't cheap as far as I'm concerned, and the last thing we want someone to do is go out and spend money if they didn't have to. :P
Have you done any anti-spy/mal/ad-ware and virus scans lately? Assuming that you're running out of memory it could be that you've got a bunch of junk eating up resources. Or are you perhaps multitasking with a bunch of other programs running simultaneously? Every time you clean out *ware it's good to run Disk Cleanup... defragging couldn't hurt either. Once you've cleaned up your computer if you're still having problems, then you know it's time to start looking inside (unless the situation was obviously indicative of a hardware problem.)
Were you saying that the problems started happening after some kind of update 2 weeks ago? Perhaps an upgraded graphics driver could be to blame?
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