losing memory

by **Jimboroks1** on Sun Apr 15, 2007 2:20 pm

I can't understand something. I had about 36GB of memory free on one drive and without putting anything on it I suddenly found out I had less than 1Gb. After getting rid of whatever I could, I wound up with 883 MB.
Any ideas what is going on in my new computer?

Jimboroks

by **terrell** on Sun Apr 15, 2007 2:59 pm

start|run 'dxdiag', save all information to your desktop. open dxdiag.txt, copy/paste to this thread. we'll take a look at what ya got, jim. (8

by **BruceWallace** on Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:57 pm

Jimboroks1 wrote:I can't understand something. I had about 36GB of memory free on one drive and without putting anything on it I suddenly found out I had less than 1Gb. After getting rid of whatever I could, I wound up with 883 MB.
Any ideas what is going on in my new computer?

Jimboroks

Viruses or adware/malware or bloated temp files.

by **GDI_Coyote** on Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:59 am

i was gonna add a comment but i forgot what i was going to type. :shock:

by **TIG__Ripper** on Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:27 am

He He He

by **in2bluz** on Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:49 pm

36 gb of hard drive space is different from 1 gb of memory ( ram ). So not sure what you were looking at, but if you were checking how much free space you had on your hard drive it may have showed you 36 gb, but after cleaning it up you may have looked at how much memory your system has and it showed you 1 gb?? not the same thing. only going by what you said, if i am incorrect sorry about that.

by **Larry_Warrilow** on Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:08 am

jim, as bruce remarked, bloated temp files can really slow things down. my new security program clears these files on a regular basis, but before that, i had a ton of emails and saved forum posts clogging up the works. after the first purge, things sped up considerably. lw

by **terrell** on Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:09 am

http://ccleaner.com/

great place to start.

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