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Hi there all,
I am really concern now that a couple of nights ago, I got a warning
message that stated that system memory is very low, and windows will
increase your virtual ram. After Windows XP doing so, I noticed that
the system started to slow down even more to the point as of today it
was very slow. So after reading my xp book, it decribes a little bit
about finding unwanted programs under windows task manager as well as
your cpu usage and memory. I have looked at the process tab and I have
a mile long of processes running and my availble memory has dropped
dramatically. I have a total 512MB ram, and normal range of available
ram is usally around 312MB. However today my availible memory had
dropped to about 180MB of ram.
Some things I have done so far...
1. scanned for viruses... no viruses found
2. scanned for adware/spyware/mailware using ad-aware se unregistered
and found some files but I cleaned them and re-booted. Yet I still have
an average of 180MB of ram.
3. Looked at my process tab and saw that there where 7 svchost.exe
files which had concerned me so I google it, and found one site saying
that there should be multiple instances running. However it also
mentioned that it can also be a virus though Nortans should pick it up.
4. and the last thing I did, prior to posting here, was I did a search
on memory leaks, and a bunch of users from other newsgroups say that
memory leaks should clear up by re-booting your system. Though this
didn't resolve anything either.
oh and BTW... about 6 months ago and prior my cpu usage never went
above 4%. Though lately especially when I am not using my computer for
more than a couple of hours, my cpu usage goes all the way up to 100%
but I am not using the system.
I have a sony viao computer, with 1.5 GHZ processor, 512MB of ram,
using Windows XP Home edition sp2, both Windows XP firewall and my
router firewall are enabled, and I have Nortons Antuvirus 2003 pro.
any ideas?
I am really concern now that a couple of nights ago, I got a warning
message that stated that system memory is very low, and windows will
increase your virtual ram. After Windows XP doing so, I noticed that
the system started to slow down even more to the point as of today it
was very slow. So after reading my xp book, it decribes a little bit
about finding unwanted programs under windows task manager as well as
your cpu usage and memory. I have looked at the process tab and I have
a mile long of processes running and my availble memory has dropped
dramatically. I have a total 512MB ram, and normal range of available
ram is usally around 312MB. However today my availible memory had
dropped to about 180MB of ram.
Some things I have done so far...
1. scanned for viruses... no viruses found
2. scanned for adware/spyware/mailware using ad-aware se unregistered
and found some files but I cleaned them and re-booted. Yet I still have
an average of 180MB of ram.
3. Looked at my process tab and saw that there where 7 svchost.exe
files which had concerned me so I google it, and found one site saying
that there should be multiple instances running. However it also
mentioned that it can also be a virus though Nortans should pick it up.
4. and the last thing I did, prior to posting here, was I did a search
on memory leaks, and a bunch of users from other newsgroups say that
memory leaks should clear up by re-booting your system. Though this
didn't resolve anything either.
oh and BTW... about 6 months ago and prior my cpu usage never went
above 4%. Though lately especially when I am not using my computer for
more than a couple of hours, my cpu usage goes all the way up to 100%
but I am not using the system.
I have a sony viao computer, with 1.5 GHZ processor, 512MB of ram,
using Windows XP Home edition sp2, both Windows XP firewall and my
router firewall are enabled, and I have Nortons Antuvirus 2003 pro.
any ideas?