?!?!?!?

[Testinging]

My laptop seems to be filling itself up....
Around 24 hours ago i had 447MB of free memory, 2 Hours ago i had 420 and now i have 385.....I haven't done a single thing on my laptop that would even take up more then 1MB of memory...

Whats going on??? :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

[Testinging]

now i have 383!!!!!!!! and i did absolutly nothing!!!!!!

[PeOfEo]

Are we talking about ram or hard drive space?

[Testinging]

well im not familier with all these terms (:D ) but i'd say ram

[PeOfEo]

Hard drive is how much space you have for files. Ram is random access memory. If you run out of ram your system is going to lock up. If you run out of hard drive space you system will not lockup bit windows will give you a bunch of error messages.

[Testinging]

oh silly me. Yes i guess its the hard drive then:p. So now about my problem....

[MstrBob]

A Virus? I'd suggest running a virus scan with a good anti-virus program.

[davidbrent]

Are you downloading anything?

[Jupac]

Originally posted by Testinging
I haven't done a single thing on my laptop that would even take up more then 1MB of memory...



I dont think so

[davidbrent]

Just taking it out of standby mode would affect the memory...

[Daniel T]

Somehow I doubt he is talking about hard drive space.... he says he had 447MB in the beginning, which is an extremely small amount, even for a laptop... where are you getting these numbers from, Testinging?

[Neczy]

Actually, I had something similar happen to me not too long ago, just on a much larger scale. I had 27gigs left on my hard drive. I go to sleep, wake up, turn on my computer and there is 200MBs left. No idea how, I only could find a few gigs of files and programs. It led me to conclude that I had a virus that was telling Windows I was using a much smaller hard drive then it really had, and slowly it looked all processes up until the computer stopped working. Luckily it was fixed upon a nice clean reformat, repartion and reinstall of WinXP.

In Conclusion, I have no idea how to fix it, but I would assume running an updated Antivirus software could fix it. I ended up taking the easy way out and reformatting. Due to your lack of knowledge on computers (no offense meant) I would not recommend reformatting unless you have all your important files backed up, and that you have your OS's Installation CD and Product Registration Key handy.

[DaveSW]

Try posting a hijackthis log
google 'hijackthis' for a download location.

edit: http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html