I guess I didn't specify the browser I use.  I use F
Good morning Don,

I guess I didn't specify the browser I use.  I use Firefox.  I am one who has a real strong negative feeling about IE.  I use Yahoo mail as well.  My ISP doesn't offer POP3.  

I have wracked my brain trying to figure out what programs I would have running in the background to cause this issue.  When I check, all I see is 3 programs running.  The ones I mentioned before.  

I have run malware scans from two different programs and only had 18 issues and they were cookies.  I have run my AVG twice.  And it scans every day at 3 AM.  

Does Firefox have the ability to tab the links rather then open new windows?  If so how do I set that up?

Thank you all for your suggestions.  

tannis z TN

--- On Sun, 8/2/09, Don Penlington <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Don Penlington <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Virtual Memory
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 6:14 PM
> 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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