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    Physical Memory Usage Problem!

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by chitown092790, Sep 5, 2010.

  1. chitown092790

    chitown092790 Newbie

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    The past few days my p 7811 fx has been using RAM like crazy. After an hour or so after turning on the computer, over 1000 processes are running. At first, it's fine. There have to be over 200 rundll32.exe running. I scanned for viruses and malware but nothing. The other day I got the low memory warning. This has never happened before, and I know I'm not using even close to 4 gigs of RAM when my computer is idle. I'm not an expert and any help is appreciated!!

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    chitown092790, Sep 5, 2010
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    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    You scanned using what for virus etc. Be sure to do a full scan too not just a quick scan............
     
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    Norton 360, yes full scan. For malware I used Ad-Aware free version. It found some malware on my computer last week but it was removed and this started happening a few days ago. THe longer my computer stays on, it seems more rundll32.exe processes start to run, wasting all my RAM
     
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    In Windows Vista and 7 task manager you can see what DLL is running in your rundll32.exe process by adding the column "Command Line".

    To do this go in task manager, in the processes tab, go to the menu View \ Select Columns, you’ll see the option for “Command Line” in the list, which you’ll want to check.

    You'll be able to track what is causing your problem.
     
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    It's all comming from C:\Windows\SysWOW64
     
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    I think that is the folder, the executable etc doesn't list?
     
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    I expanded the column, becuase there is more after the C:\WIndows\system32\rundll32.exe. after that it says C:/Progra~2\APC\APC PowerChute Personal Edition\MSGdll.dll

    THe APC is my backup battery monitor thing, i dont really need the software for it though. Should i uninstall and see what happens?

    EDIT: I uninstalled that program and everything's fine now. Thanks a lot everyone. Weird how that just started acting up just glad its ok now. Thanks again!
     
    chitown092790, Sep 5, 2010
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