My computer is losing memory every few hours (PLEASE HELP)

[ThugsRook]

gotta love watching console guys try and fix a PC


why is your C: only a 18.5GB drive?!?!! with Windows 8 yet!?!!!!!!

[QuickSciFi]

Just stay out of the thread if you have nothing useful to say, except attack and ridicule the people trying to help.
Besides, the problem has been solved.

Dude. Once again, WTF? Go back and read how this all got started. It's your obnoxious thread picking idiocy that started this. You're the one that called me-out specifically to attack and ridicule me. I personally just went back there and noticed you must be extremely butt-hurt about something in these here forums to take offense in something that wasn't even aimed at you in the first place. You've done this before and you got banned for it. Don't you learn from your mistakes dude?

Besides, the problem has been solved.

You're completely right. Thanks to my help he was able to get rid of all 4 trojans (most probably the cause of the problem) as well as 724 other threats.

Not my own words, the CORRECT words. System Restore is a functionality built into windows.
Just like calling the disk "memory", calling a complete format a "system restore" is wrong.

I misspoke once. Right after both of you started eating crap about doing a system restore (which wasn't what I was trying to recommend in the first place). Oh wow, you both caught me on repeating your own words by mistake. Like I said. Go pick a fight somewhere else.

At the risk of getting quoted again by another obnoxious thread picker, when the hell did I "call the disk memory"?

And what disk are you talking about? Be specific dude. You can't call me out on the specifics on terminology and be all general (rhetorical question, btw).

Come on guys, the problem's been solved, no need to get into a pissing match over terminology...

You're completely right.

[MrMatthews]

Go download these and run them at once (they're free):

SuperAntiSpyware

MalwareBytes

Download each one (Malwarebytes first), then do an Update before you run them. You may have to get Malwarebytes sent to your e-mail.

Warning! At this stage, it may actually be too late. The virus in your computer may catch-on the fact that you're trying to get rid of it. Do this as soon as you can!!!

Wow, just skimming over this thread makes me realize how little I know about computers.

But QuickSciFi's advice sounded pretty solid, so I've downloaded those programs and am running them now. Couldn't hurt, right?

And what's up with this Olls/Kamahl vs QuickSciFi thing? All three of you guys are cool, so lay off each other. The war's out there, fellas!

[The Coop]

I'm guessing all the darker blue is porn?

[Kamahl]

At the risk of getting quoted again by another obnoxious thread picker, when the hell did I "call the disk memory"?

You didn't, the OP did. And everyone though he had some program eating his RAM. Gee, I wonder why?
Having to deal with people who call stuff by the wrong name gets annoying fast.

[Olls]

Lol. Sounds like someone's butthurt alright.
Calm down, bro.

[Kamahl]

I'm just going to sit back and enjoy this, then. You're going to try all this bull crap (no offense guys), and, short of buying a new computer, you're going to end-up doing exactly what I recommended.

It's understandable the need to be in denial here. But I've been in this position way too many times. Just do a complete system restore and be done with it.

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He doesn't have any, we've already established that.
If anything what he needs is to completely format his PC.

There is nothing to restore without backups.
Seems that you don't really know what you're talking about, no offense.

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What are you talking about, dude? You're just repeating what I said with your own words. I'm not suggesting to do a system restore with a backup of his files. I'm suggesting he deletes the shit out of everything he has by doing a complete (destructive) recovery.

I wasn't talking about restoring to an earlier time as he was trying to do. You guys know exactly what I was talking about, but you decided to go around the subject. Complete (destructive) system recovery, reformatting computer. Name it what you will. That's what I've been suggesting from the beginning. It's just a suggestion, you don't have to be butthurt about it, no offense.

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Restore, recovery and reinstall have different meanings in the world of IT. If you don't want to be misunderstood, don't use the wrong terms.

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Dude. WTF are you talking about? I never said anything about "restore" or "reinstalling". Read the fucking words

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Okay. And what exactly do you think that means? You sound like the sort of people who come into a store and say "I need more gigabytes put on my hard drive" to indicate they want a RAM upgrade.

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Your ignorance continues on the same streak. I've been upgrading my own RAM since before you were 6 years old, kid. Grow the fuck-up and learn to pick a fight the right way. Quit dragging around your preconceived notions.

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Wait, what?

Huh?
Just stay out of the thread if you have nothing useful to say, except attack and ridicule the people trying to help.
Besides, the problem has been solved.

Not my own words, the CORRECT words. System Restore is a functionality built into windows.
Just like calling the disk "memory", calling a complete format a "system restore" is wrong.

There, this whole stupid war explained:
QuiSciFi used a wrong term, people misunderstood what he meant, and then he started insulting people.
The end.

[sheath]

There is a problem with several older proprietary manufacturers using their system recovery disks/partitions in numerous ways. Some, like Dell, will discourage a hard drive formatting and OS reinstall and shelter their users through layers upon layers of nearly useless hardware tests and restore/recovery options that almost never work. Then they label the disk format and reinstall something ambiguous like "destructive" recovery.

One way or the other, proprietary computer owners have become accustomed to the terms recovery and restoration as "fix all" terms. Terms like format, reinstall, or especially operating system are completely alien to most computer users. If I bothered to count how many times somebody handed me a Microsoft O-F-F-I-C-E disk and swore it was the Windows operating system disk that came with the computer, I'd be a dead man. I can also say that no consumer in the last ten years ever bothered to ask when they bought a new computer at any price whether it came with a separate operating system disk, restoration or otherwise. They all just counted on the extremely limited warranty instead.