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[nails]

huge cache, try decreasing it.

[mattyballs]

SOMETHING IS EATING MY MEMORY TOO!!!!

I THINK THEY CALL IT ALTZIEMERS:biglaugh:


(SORRY I COULDNT RESIST IT)

[todd1970]

There is a memory monster living in your cd-rom drive.

[FRUITJUNKIE1971]

Do I need more memory as the free memory value is low, and often is at zero.

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[mattyballs]

do i need more memory as the free memory value is low, and often is at zero.

78 processes..youre not running half of kent are you..lol;)

[todd1970]

78 processes..youre not running half of kent are you..lol;)

Oh aye..ffs that would do my teats right in.

Ive managed to get mine down to 24 and even then i think thats too much.

[mattyballs]

AHA!!...and robinhood youre on 83 PROCESSES...30/40 is about average..im on 37 at mo

AND WELL DONE TODD 24...GRRRRRRRRR:mad:

[FRUITJUNKIE1971]

Haven't a clue mate... i thought 78 seems like alot... here's a screenshot.

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[jmon]

most likely it could be a running program or files overload i use webroot windows washer contantly its a great program washes out the temp files that are lurking about

[mattyballs]

how do i do that? I have no idea

WELL CAN ONLY GIVE YER TH XP VERS...


start /cont panel/system/advanced/performance/settings/virtual memory

then change the paging file value 1024/1024 on the main c drive...

WHY NOT TRY DELETING SOME OF THOSE HIDDEN STARTUP PROGRAMS FIRST..THATLL MAKE A BIG DIFFRENCE

[ady]

ok system idle is 92% and the rest are using 0%, so they are not running just loaded at start-up.

Google some stuff and see if they are crucial to your system..

The very simple start>run>msconfig and stop some loading...

Temp was mentioned, also a good file to clean once and again is also %temp%

[mattyballs]

[quote name='ady']ok system idle is 92% and the rest are using 0%, so they are not running just loaded at start-up

AH..could well be a SPOOF SYNCHOST.EXE...ive had a few of those..thing is is finding out which one is the BOGUS ONE..

SPYBOT SEARCH AND DESTROY..has always worked for me..(not with the shitty tea timer bit on tho...)

also on that it has many advanced applications such as a quite comprehensive startup and process killer/manager


AND ITS SAFE AND FREE;)

[FRUITJUNKIE1971]

Thanks for the advice lads, will look into bringing that process list down.

Cheers!

[djmat56]

Try using Tuneup Utilities. You can go through all processes and start up programs and switch the on or off at will.

[theflange]

Can you do the video again and make sure you click on the "show processes from all users" as it is not showing the full process list at the moment.

Or could you click on it and put up a before and after to show all the processes running.

Thanks

[Magz]

Erm, is the only issue you have that WIndows shows very little free memory? Vista does this by design by using available memory to cache system files and other items. This makes the system generally run better as it uses the disk less. With (only) 3GB RAM on Vista 64, you're unlikely to ever show much RAM available. As processes request memory, Windows drops the less essential / used items from the cache.

In a nutshell, what you're seeing is fairly typical, and unless the laptop is performing poorly I'd not give it any more thought.