hello, im completely clueless about computers. i know the bare minimum. starting about a week ago my computer shuts off at random intervals and then i am unable to start it up again the first sixty seconds or so after it shuts off, with this error message displaying very briefly (<a second) lsass.exe error insufficient system resources exist to complete the API. this is VERY annoying and i am wondering what i can do to fix this. i have tried running sasser checks and apparently sasser is not the problem because two of them found no traces of sasser. thank you

computernov, SWAG, since you're getting the 'low resources' error, I'm thinking you need to clear a file called 'index.dat'. It's like a log file and keeps a record of every site you visit on the web. Empty, it's 32K, but it can grow HUGE. It's a protected file and can't be deleted by normal methods. CCleaner (free @: http://www.ccleaner.com/) can get rid of it (not to worry, it gets rebuilt EMPTY on the next boot.) It runs in the background and you're never aware of it, but it can be quite a resource hog. One nice thing about it is that even if it's not giving trouble, cleaning won't hurt. HTH. Ed in Texas.

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