Windows 8.1 computer low on memory, casuing MS Office and Firefefox problems

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PcGod718

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Eirman

In Firefox try ...
Help > Restart With Add-ons Disabled

Then compare memory usage

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rindi

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Oops, not sure why the images didn't show. here they are.

"Don't load tabs" is already enabled in Firefox
I'll try the Session Manager add-on in Firefox
Memory-Popup.jpg
Task-Manager.jpg

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(Full Windows defender scan is currently running)

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I updated my Flash Player.

I also have the results of my full Windows Defender scan. Defender found two threats. One with the alert level Severe named "BrowserModifier:Win32/DefaultTab".

I attached a screen shot.

I had Defender remove both threats.
Malware.JPG

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Updated Java

Downloaded and ran Malwarebytes. It found 13 threats and removed them.

Thanks for all the help so far. Should I do anything else?

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PcGod718

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Natty Greg

You have a virus, and or malware, I have windows 8.1 with 4 gigs runs fine

nobus

i suggest to run Roguekiller also : http://majorgeeks.com/RogueKiller_d6983.html

adw cleaner often helps too : http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

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After following many of the suggestions from this thread, I have attached a screen shot of what my current system looks like.

This is with Outlook running as well as several Firefox windows/tabs (3 Firefox windows with 4 or 5 tabs in each and a Microsoft Silverlight video playing).

Does this look about right, or should I do anything else to try to clean up my system

Thanks for all the help!

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Oops. Here's the attachment with the screenshot.
Task-Manager.JPG

It looks OK. I see you got three browser windows open. What's on them? Any large animated ads?

PcGod718

very nice. Firefox is using half of what it was using before. now the trick is to keep it that way. make sure to check up on memory usage a few times throughout the day over the next few days to make sure there aren't any huge leaps in ram usage. if you see Firefox starting to encroach and not releasing ram, you may have an extension that's leaking.

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Just had another Firefox crash.

Here's the Task Manager screen shot at the time of the Firefox crash.
Firefox-Crash.JPG

rindi

Have you, like I suggested, looked at your pagefile settings?