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| Thread ID: 50397 | 2004-10-19 09:20:00 | Running out of Virtual Memory/System Resources | peterver (3888) | Press F1 |
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| 282640 | 2004-10-19 09:20:00 | I have a Compaq 7800 with Intel Pentium3, 666MHZ, 640 MB of Ram and 40GB hard drive (50% of which is free space), running XP Pro with SP2. Recently I have been getting error messages telling me typically "...out of memory or system resources. Close some windows and try again" the computer also became slow and eventually unresponsive requiring a reboot to enable it to be used. Looking at windows Task Manager to see what processes were in use in addition to the normal files like mm_tray,msnappau etc I find the following two processes each loaded 84 times (that's 168 files eating up the resources) the files are: C:\Windows\System32\net.exe C:\Windows\System32\net1.exe The three possible things which may have caused this are: 1) SP2 update 2) I inadvertently clicked on a spam email and opened it. 3) I recently had a D-Link router fitted. I have checked for de-fragging, run SpyBot,Adaware.AVG Free also Avast! (my Fire wall is Zone Alarm) all of which proved negative. Looking at Google sites and Press F1 hasn't provided any answers. Has anyone out there had any experience with this sort of problem if so can you suggest a course of action to me please. |
peterver (3888) | ||
| 282641 | 2004-10-19 09:37:00 | Googling on net.exe found someone with similar problem traced to a process called "dslagent". Is that something D-Link related? | PaulD (232) | ||
| 282642 | 2004-10-19 09:50:00 | are you allowing windows to control your virtual memory, if not do so xp will tell you that you are getting low on system resources but then make the necessary adjustments if windows is allowed to mange virtual memory. In my opinion this is one thing XP does well | beama (111) | ||
| 282643 | 2004-10-19 09:57:00 | PaulD, thanks for your fast response I will check it out on Google | peterver (3888) | ||
| 282644 | 2004-10-19 09:59:00 | Beama, thanks for replying,yes I do allow XP to control the Virtual memory, the problem appears to be the spawning net.exe and net1.exe running tasks. | peterver (3888) | ||
| 282645 | 2004-10-19 10:20:00 | Fairly certain its viral, causing net.exe or net1.exe to contunually spawn. Net.exe is a valid windows file, its the reason its being spawned that is the problem. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 282646 | 2004-10-19 10:30:00 | Same problem sort of problem here (www.experts-exchange.com) hth |
johnboy (217) | ||
| 282647 | 2004-10-19 10:38:00 | Godfather & Johnboy. Thanks for responding. Peterver | peterver (3888) | ||
| 282648 | 2004-10-23 20:55:00 | Re my original question posted Oct 19 about spawning net.exe & net1.exe in startup causing loss of memory resources. The problem was caused through ADSL software not being fully uninstalled causing activation of mapiicon.exe in the start up which in turn produced the net.exe & net1.exe (80 each). By deleting the remnants of ADSL software, mapiicon.exe disappeared from startup taking with it all of the offending net.exe and net1.exe. Unplugging the new router and then reconnecting,cleared the cobwebs and now everthing is back to normal and Jetstream is working fine. Thanks for the suggestions and responses. Peterver |
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