Over the last week or so something changed on my computer–I’m not sure what, but now after a few hours of working, my Toshiba M700 slowly degrades. Something is leaking memory terribly.
I know I have a couple problems aside from this so they may be all ganging up on me. I’m not sure. I do know that McAfee antivirus, which ships with the M700 has a bug which causes IE to crash. And I’m pretty sure Adobe’s Flash has some problems too with video–quite often the audio doesn’t stop after navigating away from a YouTube video page, for instance. And I know there’s a bios/driver problem (I think) with the USB ports–disconnecting a USB device when the computer is in hibernate half-wakes up the machine forcing a hard shutdown. So, yeah, I know this machine is limping along.
However, like I said, after this past week or so I noticed that if I work for three or four hours that basically my system memory is about gone. Windows stop popping up. Windows Explorer dies. IE flakes out. Networking doesn’t seem to work well. Live Messenger drops out a lot (like it used to). Everything is getting starved. If I exit apps to free up memory, it helps, but eventually I have to reboot.
The networking might be another issue. It could be my ISP. I have a friend with the same service provider (Cox cable) that’s having problems (slow connectivity, sites that fail to display) this past week too. And the Live Messenger problem (messages that fail to go through) seems like a system wide problem like Messenger had about a year or so ago and that turned out to be a problem on Microsoft’s server side. So maybe these two are unrelated. Then again, maybe not. They just all started happening at the same time.
I see over on Gottabemobile that someone is having resource problems with their HP2710p. Coincidence? I’ll be watching Task Manager to see if maybe the same thing is going on.
Anyone else having problems?
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