Doing a Vista home OS repair at the shop, after I fixed a hw problem with
the CPU overheating, I noticed what sounds like the same thing. Hard drive
also goes nuts fter a while too. After turning off some stuff in task
manager one by one, the culpret seemed to be the WLAN auto finder process,
or something like that. I remember the hard drive seeking all the time maybe
was fixed by turning off the indexing service.

Another good resource to post the problem or research for similar , are the
BBS forums at www.blackviper.com




"Arfa Daily" wrote in message
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Pretty bog standard machine here. AMD Athlon 64 processor, 2GB of single
channel DDR 160MHz memory, couple of hard drives etc. Running Windoze 7
Ultimate 64 bit (not my choice, put on there by my lad, when he built the
machine).

In all general respects, it works just fine. But it has this really
annoying thing of clogging up its memory over a few days. Normally, this
machine is never turned off, as was also the case with its predecessor,
which ran all sorts of Windoze versions over the years that I used it,
ending with XP Pro. There was never any problem with memory clogging on
that machine. This one, however, starts off, after a clean boot, showing
about 35% memory in use at idle. There are a few 'background' progs
running, such as a clock synchronizer and a weather monitor, and
Thunderbird as a mail client, anti virus etc, so I guess that 35% is
reasonable. But over the course of a few days, the amount in use creeps up
and up until you reach around 90% usage with the same background progs
running, and it otherwise idling. I have tried a number of memory
'cleaner' programs and the best I have found to date is one called simply
"CleanMem". It claims to do a genuine job of clearing unused crap out of
the memory that's been left behind, unlike other cleaners which it says
work by fooling the system in some way by filling the memory with zeros or
some such. I'm not really au fait enough with the workings of computers to
understand just what it was saying, but suffice to say that it does seem
to work better than the others I've tried. But even that one seems unable
to recover the situation beyond about 75% usage. The only way to get the
memory back, and thus recover the speed of the machine, is to do a
"Restart", which is a royal pain in the arse.

So, is this just a poor characteristic of 7 that previous versions of
Windoze didn't suffer from ? Does anyone else have a similar problem, or
have found a way to resolve it ? Not looking for a long drawn-out
discussion on this - I can live with it. Just interested to see if anyone
better qualified at this sort of thing than me, has a definitive answer.

Arfa