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bobburk
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Trouble opening links - 7/9/2008 6:44:32
I have an HP Pavilion laptop with Windows XP and am having trouble opening links on websites. After the computer has been running for a while and I have done a lot of work (looking at real estate pictures, reading articles on various websites, opening articles via links on websites, etc) my computer's ability to open a link successfully stops. Either it just sits there and looks at me, or a blank white page opens and the content never loads. If I then reboot my computer everything operates normally for a while and then I have to repeat the restart again. I just upgraded to 2 gig RAM thinking that was the problem and it speeded up the computer but didn't fix the underlying problem. Any ideas?
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d a v e
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RE: Trouble opening links - 7/9/2008 6:50:31
Bob - what browser are you using? (say what version as well as whether IE, firefox, opera, ... )
how much free RAM do you have when this happens?
if you just close the browser and restart it do you have some RAM freed up? and if you restart your BROWSER only (not reboot the pc) do links work then
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bobburk
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RE: Trouble opening links - 7/9/2008 7:15:19
Dave...I am running IE 6.0. Do I determine how much free RAM I have by opening Task Manager and looking at Physical Memory (K)?
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bobburk
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RE: Trouble opening links - 7/9/2008 7:31:48
I am a realtor so I spend a lot of time looking at interior pictures of houses while searching for properties for my clients. I just went into the MLS and looked at a bunch of pictures, and while doing that, I checked on the physical memory available and it continued to go down as I looked at more and more pictures. The interesting thing is that after I closed out the pictures, the physical memory stayed at what it was when I had the picture files open. I can see that eventually the memory would sink to zero or close to it. Are those pictures being stored in my computer even after I close the file. If so, how can I prevent this from hapening?
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treetopsranch
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RE: Trouble opening links - 7/9/2008 10:09:40
I know Dave is the expert here and he will also answer you but IE 6.0 should release memory after you close the photo you were looking at. Something else is going on here. A virus maybe? I would try to install Firefox and see if it happens with that browser.
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bobburk
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RE: Trouble opening links - 7/9/2008 15:42:26
I just tried Firefox and the same problem existed with that...the memory kept declining even after I closed the pages with the pictures. The more pages and the more pictures I opened, the more the ram declined. I ran Spybot Search and Destroy and it found nothing. I have Mcafee running all the time to prevent viruses etc.
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bobburk
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RE: Trouble opening links - 7/10/2008 15:32:48
Larry, what is a "intra-resource relationship"?
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