memory leak in Windows XP...

[golfnerd]

Any of you geeks here had any experience with a memory leak in XP? I have to reboot - actually hit the reset button - about 3 times a day. After reboot, things rock along just fine for a few hours then things begin to slow down then things stop. I can click the mouse, but after about 4 clicks, I get a beep from the computer.

Here's what I'm running

XP on a Dell Dimension PIII 500 with 768mb of ram with a Diamond Viper video card.

Any ideas?

[jeshurun]

I'm no geek but XP works awesome for me; very stable. Do you keep windows updated? Also, do you use their FREE One Care service? I even always have media player running. Although, I only use IE 7 for surfing so I don't know if a different browser causes your windows to freeze.

[golfnerd]

I'm no geek but XP works awesome for me; very stable. Do you keep windows updated? Also, do you use their FREE One Care service? I even always have media player running. Although, I only use IE 7 for surfing so I don't know if a different browser causes your windows to freeze.

I use Mozilla Firefox. IMHO it's a much safer, better browser than IE.

[Buzzardhut]

Any of you geeks here had any experience with a memory leak in XP? I have to reboot - actually hit the reset button - about 3 times a day. After reboot, things rock along just fine for a few hours then things begin to slow down then things stop. I can click the mouse, but after about 4 clicks, I get a beep from the computer.

Here's what I'm running

XP on a Dell Dimension PIII 500 with 768mb of ram with a Diamond Viper video card.

Any ideas?

Use Anticrash (http://www.dachshundsoftware.com/AntiCrashSetup.exe) to stop the leak

http://www.dachshundsoftware.com/anticrash/index.html

[golfnerd]

thanks...I'll check it out.