Vickaronomie
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I must be blind or something, but I couldn't find any specific place to put this. So it's here. It can be moved if need be.
Anyway; my laptop has been running fine, if not exceptionally good, since purchase. But as recently in the past week, the memory has been... eaten up? And I've scoured the web for anyone else having my issues, coming up with only "oh it's Vista, it takes up a lot of memory even on idle, you don't have to worry about it."
Well for a little over a year, I haven't had to worry about it! But now... it's just bizarre.
Right now, (and mind you, again, this has never happened before,) my laptop on idle is taking up 1.75gigs and I only have 2gigs at maximum! And this wouldn't be a problem if I didn't get these annoying "low on memory" pop ups and program crashes!! I can't surf the net, I can't use Photoshop (which DOES eat up a lot of memory, but I was doing fine with it before now,) hell, I can't even have it on all day like I used to.
I'm a college student and I use this for just about everything. Homework, communication, telephone, artwork, animation, music and movies. It is my media center, my typewriter, my animation/cartooning studio, and my radio... and I NEED it to work properly.
Does ANYONE have any clue as to why this might be happening or how I can fix this problem? I can provide specs, but I wouldn't know how it'd have anything to do with this, since I've had this machine for a little over a year now with no memory problems to speak of until now.
Is it a virus? Malware/Adware/whatever? I haven't gotten any random popups, or suspicious activity alerts from Norton (Internet Security, that's what I use right now,) so... what do I do? Are there any instructions one could give me to stop any services or background programs? (Services, such as svc host, are currently taking up around 400,000kb or whatever--
Holy ****, okay, seriously, I got a C+++ error and Firefox was closed. Just now. WHAT THE **** IS HAPPENING.
EDIT: netsvcs are currently taking up between 400,000kb and 600,000 kb. My processes are taking up only about 100,000kb. There are TONS of services open and running, I do not know which to stop or if my memory loss even has anything to do with them.
Anyway; my laptop has been running fine, if not exceptionally good, since purchase. But as recently in the past week, the memory has been... eaten up? And I've scoured the web for anyone else having my issues, coming up with only "oh it's Vista, it takes up a lot of memory even on idle, you don't have to worry about it."
Well for a little over a year, I haven't had to worry about it! But now... it's just bizarre.
Right now, (and mind you, again, this has never happened before,) my laptop on idle is taking up 1.75gigs and I only have 2gigs at maximum! And this wouldn't be a problem if I didn't get these annoying "low on memory" pop ups and program crashes!! I can't surf the net, I can't use Photoshop (which DOES eat up a lot of memory, but I was doing fine with it before now,) hell, I can't even have it on all day like I used to.
I'm a college student and I use this for just about everything. Homework, communication, telephone, artwork, animation, music and movies. It is my media center, my typewriter, my animation/cartooning studio, and my radio... and I NEED it to work properly.
Does ANYONE have any clue as to why this might be happening or how I can fix this problem? I can provide specs, but I wouldn't know how it'd have anything to do with this, since I've had this machine for a little over a year now with no memory problems to speak of until now.
Is it a virus? Malware/Adware/whatever? I haven't gotten any random popups, or suspicious activity alerts from Norton (Internet Security, that's what I use right now,) so... what do I do? Are there any instructions one could give me to stop any services or background programs? (Services, such as svc host, are currently taking up around 400,000kb or whatever--
Holy ****, okay, seriously, I got a C+++ error and Firefox was closed. Just now. WHAT THE **** IS HAPPENING.
EDIT: netsvcs are currently taking up between 400,000kb and 600,000 kb. My processes are taking up only about 100,000kb. There are TONS of services open and running, I do not know which to stop or if my memory loss even has anything to do with them.
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My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Acer 5630
- CPU
- Intel Core2 T5500 1.66/1.66GHz
- Motherboard
- No idea.
- Memory
- 2.00GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- I have no idea, but the gaming sucks on here.
- Sound Card
- No idea.
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 15.4" WXGA Acer CrystalBrite LCD
- Screen Resolution
- 1280x800px
- Hard Drives
- C: internal 96.7GB, D: internal 69.5GB, G: My Book external 700GB
- PSU
- ?
- Case
- N/A
- Cooling
- In addition to the internal fan, I have an Antec cooling pad
- Keyboard
- Acer 5630 compatible replacement keyboard
- Mouse
- Logitech Wireless Mouse
- Internet Speed
- 1.5MB