Memory?

I used to know the answer to this but I can't remember now.

You've got too much stuff on it and that is undoubtedly slowing down performance. I don't have time to go into it right now as I have to leave for work soon, but the bottom line is that you need to offload some of your stuff (say, photographs or music) elsewhere and then delete it off your hard drive in order to clear some space.

This means burning CDs or DVDs, or using a flash drive (they are small and cheap, you can buy them at any computer store) or a zip drive or the like.

Or simply deleting things you don't want any more (again, older pictures, music, or perhaps emails with large attachments).

This is where backing up is important. Hard drives, really, should not be used for storage. They should be used for the stuff that you want the computer to do. But in terms of storage, you should be using removable media like CDs, etc. so that your processing power can be devoted more to processing than to storage. Your computer is to be a workhorse, not a garage.

What exactly does the message say?

Happens to me a lot. like jes said, time for a 'puter rummage sale. I use an external hard drive to move stuff.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4010243&sku=M122-7828

I'm interested to know whether the computer is low on memory or hard drive space. "Memory" is RAM, not storage space.

Ticomaya, I dont know whether this helps at all because I don't know what it means but comp has 40mg and I've used 8mg

that's true...hmmm...I thought it was just disc space

You're right, Tico, my bad. Either way, though, there's clutter. And backing up never hurts.

nice sidestep...wanna dance?

Why, I thought you'd never ask.

Hmmm. Is this computer 20 years old?

NoTicomya, it's about 6 yrs old

will running this get rid of my problem?

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&source=hp&q=ccleaner.com+free&meta=&aq=1&oq=CCleaner.com&fp=26e92a906e3ca24d

Have you read up on memory loss issues?

here's a beginner's guide that was very educational to me.


http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question466.htm

What type of computer is it?
What operating system are you running?
What exactly does the low memory message say?

Time to reboot.

That's probably exactly what it means.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_leak