I seem to be losing memory...

[Guest]

I don't know why, but my available RAM seems to be lowering and lowering without any programs running. I've checked to see if any periferals are taking any memory up, but nothing. This has happened about three times now over a month or two, and I end up having to do a system restore to an earlier period where I knew everything was fine. But sure enough, it starts happening again. Everything starts slowing down, programs take forever to open, graphics freeze up, sound gets choppy, etc

AMD 2200
192 RAM (supposedly

Please help!

 

[JAX]

I can't say, "this is the silver bullet", try running ad-removal software.
You can download from the following links. Download, install and update them
and run them frequently.

Ad-aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

Spybot
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download

HTH, JAX

I don't know why, but my available RAM seems to be lowering and lowering

without any programs running. I've checked to see if any periferals are
taking any memory up, but nothing. This has happened about three times now
over a month or two, and I end up having to do a system restore to an
earlier period where I knew everything was fine. But sure enough, it starts
happening again. Everything starts slowing down, programs take forever to
open, graphics freeze up, sound gets choppy, etc.