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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