Resetting causes higher memory usage on startup?

[archcommus]

Just had to reset my computer using the button on the front because it froze and I noticed upon startup that I had about 730,000 KB of memory free instead of about 750,000. Restarted again, about the same.

Why do you think this could be?

 

[dunkster]

Looks like some process or processes are running in memory that were not running before. If you are familiar with what processes normally run on that PC - what new processes are running?

I'd run a virus scan, trojan scan and scan with your anti-spyware scanners (Spybot, AdAware, etc.) to identify and remove whatever has loaded, and remove it.

Hope this helps!

 

[archcommus]

I'm very familiar with the startup processes on my system. Only two AVG services and a Sygate service, and two AVG apps and the Sygate app. That's it.

Ad-Aware turned up nothing, AVG scans every morning so we'll see what the morning scan produces.

 

[archcommus]

AVG picked up nothing on the virus scan this morning.

I know it was directly affiliated with the resetting of the computer. I always check my free memory after rebooting so I know the time before it was about 750K. After that reset and since then, about 730K.

Oh, K = thousand not kilobytes. 😀

 

[archcommus]

Bump.