Hello, I have currently 3Gb of ram installed. My computer recognizes all 3Gb of it but only says around 2.85Gb is available most the time. After some time the amount of ram available decreases over time right now its down to 1.83Gb after the computer being awake for a number or hours. There are no viruses and goes away for a while if i reboot but rebooting every 6 hours is not reasonable. This problem does not happen when I boot in Ubunto or Windows 7.

So is there a problem with this slowing down the system or is it just that you are hung up on the statistics? Have you checked task manager to see if anything unwanted is running in the background? Goin' Fishin' (Some day)

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Morgan.W, I suspect the RAM is being consumed by your 'temp' files. They can grow quite large and are ordinarily deleted on a reboot. Maybe you need to manually delete periodically? Clear 'History'. HTH. Ed in Texas.

Ed, what are you talking about? Temp files (such as Internet Explorer's history, cookies, etc.) are saved on the hard drive and may or may not be deleted on reboot. In any case, they are not stored in RAM, and would have no effect on the total RAM available. As Richard suggested, you should look in task manager to see what process/program is using the RAM. There is probably some program with a memory leak problem that is slowly using up all the RAM. -Ryan Adams Free Computer Tips and more:http://RyanTAdams.com Paid Tech Support: Black Diamond

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul... Computer Speed and Performance May Decrease When you open, then close programs, programs may not free up RAM memory. That is called "Memory Leak". Restarting computer will clear out its RAM memory. ----------------------------------- My RAM has a leak of about 10 MB every time I get on the Internet. -------------------------------- I watch my RAM go down, using this --- Search the web for a program called "Ram Idle". Many places to download free. It displays current free RAM in the System Tray. Also you can right click the icon to free up any amount of RAM. I use a Beta version I got some years ago, and has a Memory Usage of 2,888k. -------------------------------- Go to this page ---- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946... List of fixes that are included in Windows XP Service Pack 3 Then do CTRL + F, then type memory leak then click the find button, slowly for several times. You will find many XP fixes for memory leaks. That goes to show you that... XP is one big pisser Also, Most Virus and Spyware scans are likely to work better in Windows Safe-Mode.

Thank you, I found out it was my schools print client that was causing the leak. Its constantly querying whether I am on campus. Its been gone for a few hours and I have no more loss than expected. I was worried since I would lose over a gig of ram in a matter of hours and my passmark benchmark test would go down by 200+ pts. Morgan