I have a Compaq Presario PIII with 384 MB RAM and the usual bells & whistles
(DVD, CD-RW, floppy, 14 GB hard drive)
My computer seems to be draining memory. I use FreeMem Std. to allocate and
monitor memory and when I go to bed, it's usually around 160MB or so (I have
384). Then, in the morning, it's @ 18 and I have to re-allocate (I allocate
half of total, 192).
I run the following programs in the background:
firewall
Anti-virus
USB Monitor
Still Image Monitor
Explorer
System Tray

I also have a few programs for my dig. camera, but I usually turn these off
when I'm playing computer games.
I never had this problem before. The only thing that's changed recently on
my computer is that the original hard drive got a bad spot on it, but 1)
When I re-formatted it, I assume it's been logically isolated or eliminated
and 2) I don't see how that would have anything to do with memory drain
anyway.
Any ideas, suggestions? Sometimes it gets so low, that it doesn't even have
enough memory to run Free Mem.

I'll bet that "FreeMem" is the biggest problem ...the rest is probably
spyware.

Powerslave2112 wrote:
>
> I have a Compaq Presario PIII with 384 MB RAM and the usual bells & whistles
> (DVD, CD-RW, floppy, 14 GB hard drive)
> My computer seems to be draining memory. I use FreeMem Std. to allocate and
> monitor memory and when I go to bed, it's usually around 160MB or so (I have
> 384). Then, in the morning, it's @ 18 and I have to re-allocate (I allocate
> half of total, 192).
> I run the following programs in the background:
> firewall
> Anti-virus
> USB Monitor
> Still Image Monitor
> Explorer
> System Tray
>
> I also have a few programs for my dig. camera, but I usually turn these off
> when I'm playing computer games.
> I never had this problem before. The only thing that's changed recently on
> my computer is that the original hard drive got a bad spot on it, but 1)
> When I re-formatted it, I assume it's been logically isolated or eliminated
> and 2) I don't see how that would have anything to do with memory drain
> anyway.
> Any ideas, suggestions? Sometimes it gets so low, that it doesn't even have
> enough memory to run Free Mem.

I'll bet that "FreeMem" is the biggest problem ...the rest is probably
spyware.

Powerslave2112 wrote:
>
> I have a Compaq Presario PIII with 384 MB RAM and the usual bells & whistles
> (DVD, CD-RW, floppy, 14 GB hard drive)
> My computer seems to be draining memory. I use FreeMem Std. to allocate and
> monitor memory and when I go to bed, it's usually around 160MB or so (I have
> 384). Then, in the morning, it's @ 18 and I have to re-allocate (I allocate
> half of total, 192).
> I run the following programs in the background:
> firewall
> Anti-virus
> USB Monitor
> Still Image Monitor
> Explorer
> System Tray
>
> I also have a few programs for my dig. camera, but I usually turn these off
> when I'm playing computer games.
> I never had this problem before. The only thing that's changed recently on
> my computer is that the original hard drive got a bad spot on it, but 1)
> When I re-formatted it, I assume it's been logically isolated or eliminated
> and 2) I don't see how that would have anything to do with memory drain
> anyway.
> Any ideas, suggestions? Sometimes it gets so low, that it doesn't even have
> enough memory to run Free Mem.