Rocker
02-18-2006, 07:06 AM
Bear,
Another interesting little occurence lately has been that my system pops up a little window on the bottom right of the screen, informing me that my system is getting low on virtual memory, and is creating more. At other times, especially if I've been on the 'net for a while (half-hour or longer) I start getting this same window saying that my disc is running out of memory space; the other night it got down to 34kb, then went all the way down to zero, and nothing would respond. I had to power down and then back up. But this is bizarre...I have a 40gb HD split into two 20gb partitions. All the programs don't total close to that. It just told me I have only 131MB of free space, and asked if I wanted to clean the disc...I let it do the analyze-function, and it said I could gain a wopping 2kb. I defrag every couple weeks, and only on the C drive, as the D is told it's not needed. What is soaking up the memory, or at least telling the computer that it is being soaked up?
Example: I just went into the C drive directory, and the 'All Users' shows as 14.6GB in size. But in this folder is only Start menu at 127kb, the Shared Docs at 1.6MB, Desktop at 10.3kb and Favorites which is empty. Where is the 'All Users' folder getting that number, unless that includes the disc's free space, and if it's free why is the memory going down? The C drive's file system is NTFS and it says there's only 389 MB of free space at this moment but shows the total size as 18.6 GB. Why doesn't it use all that extra space as memory?
When I go to Control Panel, and go into System, it shows 608 MB of RAM.
When the little window came up after trying to decide where I could find more memory, one of the options was to do a system restore from the last restore point. What would that do to programs I've installed since the last time I reinstalled windows, like my AVG, etc...?? :hammer3:
Thanx, Bear.
BTW, my task manager came back all by itself. Like a dog that forgot where it lived for a while... :rolleyes:
Another interesting little occurence lately has been that my system pops up a little window on the bottom right of the screen, informing me that my system is getting low on virtual memory, and is creating more. At other times, especially if I've been on the 'net for a while (half-hour or longer) I start getting this same window saying that my disc is running out of memory space; the other night it got down to 34kb, then went all the way down to zero, and nothing would respond. I had to power down and then back up. But this is bizarre...I have a 40gb HD split into two 20gb partitions. All the programs don't total close to that. It just told me I have only 131MB of free space, and asked if I wanted to clean the disc...I let it do the analyze-function, and it said I could gain a wopping 2kb. I defrag every couple weeks, and only on the C drive, as the D is told it's not needed. What is soaking up the memory, or at least telling the computer that it is being soaked up?
Example: I just went into the C drive directory, and the 'All Users' shows as 14.6GB in size. But in this folder is only Start menu at 127kb, the Shared Docs at 1.6MB, Desktop at 10.3kb and Favorites which is empty. Where is the 'All Users' folder getting that number, unless that includes the disc's free space, and if it's free why is the memory going down? The C drive's file system is NTFS and it says there's only 389 MB of free space at this moment but shows the total size as 18.6 GB. Why doesn't it use all that extra space as memory?
When I go to Control Panel, and go into System, it shows 608 MB of RAM.
When the little window came up after trying to decide where I could find more memory, one of the options was to do a system restore from the last restore point. What would that do to programs I've installed since the last time I reinstalled windows, like my AVG, etc...?? :hammer3:
Thanx, Bear.
BTW, my task manager came back all by itself. Like a dog that forgot where it lived for a while... :rolleyes: