Re: How to determine memory usage?

J150 wrote:

By the way, I always search for updates to the malware programs
and to Norton Internet Security.

Good that you search for updates. However, Norton Internet Security is a
notorious RAM hog. I'd recommend running Avast or AVG (both free) in its
place. For a firewall, Comodo is decent and light on resources. And
AdAware and Spybot S&D (which you already run) are good at detecting
spyware and adware. You might also want to run SpywareBlaster to prevent
spyware from coming in.

In msconfig, Startup, there are 30 selected startup items.

Something tells me a good many of these you don't need whatsoever. And
in cases of QuickTime and Adobe, a startup item is not needed at all;
just run the program whenever you need to.

The following sites have good information as to what are keepers and
what to jettison ASAP:

http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php#THE_PROGRAMS

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/startups/

This one is good to have bookmarked, too:

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm

Links to apps mentioned above:

Avast:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

AVG:
http://free.grisoft.com/

Comodo:
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

SpywareBlaster:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Finally, Ccleaner is an excellent program to easily clean up unneeded
temp files:
http://www.ccleaner.com


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