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What's up guys, having a rather annoying issue.
I am running Windows 7 64-bit on this laptop, it has 2GB of RAM and a 1.6 dual core processor. Needless to say, it shouldn't have any issues running the OS.
It's completely up-to-date via Windows Update, and it also has the latest flash player installed, straight from Adobe. However, every so often the flash player will crash. It will happen even on pages that are clearly not currently displaying any flash based elements.
I use Google Chrome, so it gives me a notification of when it's crashed. It has gotten to the point where this is happening every half hour of web browsing, and creates extreme lag and even freezes the browser completely.
I don't know if it's a virus of some sort, or if Chrome is busted... or what could be the problem. Does anyone have any insight or has anyone experienced this same issue and could lend a friendly suggestion?
I am running Windows 7 64-bit on this laptop, it has 2GB of RAM and a 1.6 dual core processor. Needless to say, it shouldn't have any issues running the OS.
It's completely up-to-date via Windows Update, and it also has the latest flash player installed, straight from Adobe. However, every so often the flash player will crash. It will happen even on pages that are clearly not currently displaying any flash based elements.
I use Google Chrome, so it gives me a notification of when it's crashed. It has gotten to the point where this is happening every half hour of web browsing, and creates extreme lag and even freezes the browser completely.
I don't know if it's a virus of some sort, or if Chrome is busted... or what could be the problem. Does anyone have any insight or has anyone experienced this same issue and could lend a friendly suggestion?
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How many tabs do you have open. Windows uses just over 1GB of ram so your tabs may be causing the crashes.
If that don't work, I suggest downloading Firefox and see if that helps
If that don't work, I suggest downloading Firefox and see if that helps
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Editiionz wrote How many tabs do you have open. Windows uses just over 1GB of ram so your tabs may be causing the crashes.
If that don't work, I suggest downloading Firefox and see if that helps
I will give Firefox a test run and see how that goes.
Most of them time I have 1 or 2 tabs open, I never have more than 3 open though, so I wouldn't imagine that would be the root cause.
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This could partially be a memory problem. 64-bit operating systems love to eat memory and you only have 2gb. I would never have less than 4gb of memory in a 64-bit machine. Maybe you should consider upgrading ram or crawling back down to a 32-bit os. This may or may not help your flash problem but I figured I would let you know.
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RugerSR9 wrote This could partially be a memory problem. 64-bit operating systems love to eat memory and you only have 2gb. I would never have less than 4gb of memory in a 64-bit machine. Maybe you should consider upgrading ram or crawling back down to a 32-bit os. This may or may not help your flash problem but I figured I would let you know.
Either way, I appreciate the suggestion.
I was told by Streaming, in the shoutbox, that if all else fails I may want to perform a restore. I'm going to give that a go in a few here, and if the problem persists, I suppose it wouldn't be a bad thing to upgrade the RAM anyways.
Thanks man.
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Seregor wroteRugerSR9 wrote This could partially be a memory problem. 64-bit operating systems love to eat memory and you only have 2gb. I would never have less than 4gb of memory in a 64-bit machine. Maybe you should consider upgrading ram or crawling back down to a 32-bit os. This may or may not help your flash problem but I figured I would let you know.
Either way, I appreciate the suggestion.
I was told by Streaming, in the shoutbox, that if all else fails I may want to perform a restore. I'm going to give that a go in a few here, and if the problem persists, I suppose it wouldn't be a bad thing to upgrade the RAM anyways.
Thanks man.
Before you upgrade, press CTRL, ALT and Delete and go to task manager. Then go to Processes and find Chrome.exe. You can then see how much RAM its taking up in the Memory column.
For example, I have 5 tabs open, Skype and League in the background and im using 3.5GB in total.
2GB of RAM just is not enough now
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