Tannis wrote:
>I will be on a webpage and click > on a link to a newstory, the machine
>will take forever to > load the page and more often then not, I will get
>the > message below. > > The first thing I do is look to see how many
>pages I have > open. I will close down all of the pages>>
Sounds like your browser has been set to open a new window for every link
instead of tabbed windows. This will soon consume all the system memory.
Versions of IE before version 8 may do this, as it does not have provision
for tabbed browsing unless you have the Maxthon overlay.
Check your browser options and settings. Try reinstalling your browser.
Try another browser. Google's Chrome is getting favourable reviews, you can
download it free from Google home page.
If your hard drive is getting full, that also will trigger out-of-memory
warnings as there is no space to create new virtual memory.
It's also possible that an old program has a "memory leak" which means that
when you close it, it does not release the memory it was consuming. Closing
and opening it will gradually eat up memory. This is very rare these days,
as XP is pretty good at managing memory as long as you have the virtual
memory set to "Let Windows manage...".
You can check what's running by opening Task Manager (Ctrl/Alt/Del, and see
which progs are using too much RAM. Anything using much more RAM than
Explorer is suspicious.)
If your web browser is very slow to open, that's a sign that you need to
uninstall and reinstall it, or, in the case or IE, maybe use another
browser. It's also an indication of malware in the system. Download free
Malwarebytes, update it, and run a full scan. If it won't install properly
or update, that's a certain sign of infection already in the system and
protecting itself from discovery.
In that case, the only thing you can do short of a reformat is to remove
the hard drive, insert it in another computer, and run the malware scan
from there.
Don Penlington
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