Re: what's wrong with my computer?

From: 14tonks (mail.2.14tonks_at_recursor.net)
Date: 12/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:55:12 -0500

Oh, yeah, if you don't ordinarily look at your startup screen, pay attention
on startup, and make sure the computer is counting all the MB of RAM that
are in there - it's always possible that some of your physical RAM has gone
defective, which would be moving a lot of stuff to virtual memory. 

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Sheila
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"14tonks" <mail.2.14tonks@recursor.net> wrote in message
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> Something is eating up/locking up your RAM.  Either you have a badly
written
> program that is leaking memory like a sieve, or you have a bunch of
unneeded
> processes/malware running in the background.
>
> Run scans for viruses/adware/trojans. Check Task Manager processes, see
> what's running, and pare down unnecessary items that are set to run at
> startup.
> -- 
>
> Sheila
> To reply to me, add the prefix real. to my address.
>
> "kathycarp" <kathycarp@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:V-adnU0DA7y3UlvcRVn-2w@comcast.com...
> > Sure hope Sheila is reading today.....  <gg>
> >
> > Here are the symptoms:
> > S........L..........O...........W
> > Seems to me that it gets slower the longer it is on.
> > If it has been on for a couple of days I get this message: "Windows -
> > Virtual Memory is too low......" then something about Windows is going
to
> > increase the virtual memory.
> >
> > -- 
> > Kathy
> > www.ambergriscaye.com/villadelsol
> >
> >
>
>

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