Serious memory problem on laptop.

salvinorum said:

Man its running awesome now.. Physical mem never goes above 1.5GB usage, virtual mem never above 2GB comit, and MODIFIED mem which is the one I had the probs with never goes above 50MB!! The system is flying now.

I am running everything again that I need to, except an anti-virus that is the only proggy I have not put back yet. I haven't decided on which one yet. I ran avast before, but just in case that was my problem, I'd rather try something other then Avast. AVG, Avira or MS Essentials.. we'll see.

MSE - it was probably an AV issue. Whatever you choose, avoid AVG.

I may just not run an AV. I have 5 computers running 24/7, for about 20 years now, and I have never had a virus, and I've never run anti-virus software. I think AV software is largely for newbs and people who refuse to learn internet etiquette. I think malwarebytes and windows defender might be enough for now. Before I installed Avast about 2 months ago, I never used AV software anywhere, I just wanted to try it since it was free and talked about protection in 6 modules blah blah. It didn't slow me down any I don't think, but what if it was responsible for my above mentioned problem. Argh.