Free Memory is no more

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ihato

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I posted this somewhere:
Why is my free memory constantly decreasing? A year ago, I had 50GB. Then after 4 months without checking my free memory, I had 9GB. After that:
8.5, 7.6, 5.2, 3.3, 2.1, 1.89, 1.77, 1.56, 1.21, 912MB; Then I deleted some movie
1.9GB, 1.81, 1.5, and now 1.33GB.
And I suppose It will continue that. How to stop this?

Info:
OS: Windows XP
Com: Compaq Mini 110c-1100 laptop
Max Mem: 149GB
Users: 3
Click to expand...
My memory is now 0b and I cant rise it because whenever i do that, memory decreases until it gets to 0b again.
With a program called "SpaceSniffer" I have found what Is taking that memory
System Rollback Data - 34.8GB
Documents and Settings - 21.5GB
Program Files - 14.9GB
Other stuff... - .....

I suppose that that System Rollback Data is system restore files. Why is it increasing when its turned of?????
And because Its so much, should I delete it?
I cant get the system back because as I said, Its turned of!
I dont know what to do with it, so im asking what should I delete in it.
 
You're not losing Memory, you're losing HDD space - there's a difference. When you save thing to your computer it takes up Disk space; Memory starts fresh every time you turn on your computer. The more you save/download, the less space you have - Drives are not infinite.

Open 'My Computer' and right-click on the C Drive, then select 'Properties' at the bottom of the list; blue space in the circle is occupied space, purple is free space. Click on the 'Disk Cleanup' button next to the circle and wait for it to calculate everything. When it's done it will open a new Window showing a list of areas where it can delete files from. Make sure there's a check placed in every box and then continue. A lot of old files that are no longer in use will be deleted and more space will be freed up, though the amount will vary, sometimes a few hundred MBs other times several GBs depending how full the Recycle Bin is.

You can also delete some of your old Restore points and free up a ton of space.
 
Some things to add here.

1. Change system restores size to only 5 percent of the total size of your drive by doing the following. Right click on "my computer" click on properties, click on system restore tab, drag the slider bar to 5 percent for drive C. Click apply, click ok.

2. Download and run Ccleaner.

http://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/

Download, install, open program, don't change any settings, click on run cleaner. This may take a few minutes to remove everything not needed.

3. You may be infected. Please do the following to check your system for malware.

Please download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware from here or here and save it to your desktop.
  • Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
  • At the end, be sure a checkmark is placed next to
    • Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
    • and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
  • then click Finish.
  • If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version. Please keep updating until it says you have the latest version.
  • Once the program has loaded, select Perform quick scan, then click Scan.
  • When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
  • Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected.
  • A log will be saved automatically which you can access by clicking on the Logs tab within Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

If for some reason Malwarebytes will not install or run please download and run Rkill.scr, Rkill.exe, or Rkill.com. If you are still having issues running rkill then try downloading these renamed versions of the same program.

EXPLORER.EXE
IEXPLORE.EXE
USERINIT.EXE
WINLOGON.EXE

But DO NOT reboot the system and then try installing or running Malwarebytes. If Rkill (which is a black box) appears and then disappears right away or you get a message saying rkill is infected, keep trying to run rkill until it over powers the infection and temporarily kills it. Once a log appears on the screen, you can try running malwarebytes or downloading other programs.



Download the HijackThis installer from here.
Run the installer and choose Install, indicating that you accept the licence agreement. The installer will place a shortcut on your desktop and launch HijackThis.

Click Do a system scan and save a logfile

Most of what HijackThis lists will be harmless or even essential, don't fix anything yet.

When the hijackthis log appears in a notepad file, click on the edit menu, click select all, then click on the edit menu again and click on copy. Come back to your reply and right click on your mouse and click on paste.

Post the logfile that HijackThis produces along with the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware log
 
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