Is there a programme which can check memory

furndire

I have 2 gig of memory on my computer, using very little, but after I have been on the computer for an hour or so, I get not enough memory. I cleared cookies & delete history etc, get a short while more, and the same happens again. If I restart, back to working ok and the same happens again after a while. Any suggestions would be helpful ~ in VERY simple English would be appreciated, as techie stuff and my brain do not mix very well.

custardy

check the task manager and see what progs are using what memory

so hold alt,ctrl and delete down
then the task manager pops up
click on mem usage to put the most RAM intensive progs to the top


checked for spyware?

also download freeram
http://www.bysoft.com/

for free to either manually or automatically clear ram.
however somthings causing the issue as i run 2 gig and only use 20% in day to day runnnig

albertross_2

what application gives you that msg, with 2GB of ram, it sounds spurious. Is your hard disk full?

tomsolomon

Would that be a system memory warning or a virtual memory warning?
Both very different...

furndire

oops, don't know, just get a small pop up.

furndire

Which is the mem usage bit please?

tomsolomon

Check this thread to see if its similar to whats happening to your PC.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=553253

b33r

Performance tab in task manager (physical memory).

If you have 2 gig i very much doubt its RAM you're running low of, unless you are runnign a program with a very severe memory leak or your encoding hi def video, playing a top end game and rendering in real time whilst browsing.

furndire

Thanks to all for your help. My son is coming over tomorrow, so I'm going to get him to sort it with some luck.

KILL_BILL

i would recommend getting ccleaner which is free - used to be called crap cleaner and it will take off all the junk off your hard disk

when you install programs the install program is left on the hard disk taking up space

this program used correctly will take crap/cookes/ remp files off

when i used this i would get at least 1gb back of hard disk space

furndire

Now keep getting out of resources ~ so everything freezes