Posts by Maria Richardson2

What should my next course of action be? I am still being kicked out of my game by that persistent "exception 0 xe06d7363 0 x9a168a5c" error message.
Should I perhaps go ahead and uninstall the Malwarebytes service to see if freeing up some RAM Usage helps?
Surely there must be some other solution available to me beyond just that one option.

Larry Ortiz5 said:Grab the free version of Malwarebytes and run a full scan on your PC—once that's done, head over to their site and download AdwCleaner and JRT as well. Run those scans, give your computer a quick restart, and then let's see if things start behaving any better...

I have already done exactly that.
The current state of things is as follows: (showing my desktop with nothing open except Task Manager)

ironcyclist58 said:Honestly, I don't see anything sketchy here. 🤷
Chrome is definitely eating up some CPU cycles, but I'm guessing there's just some heavy site running in the background or something...
RAM Usage looks fine to me.

However, Chrome had already been closed at the moment the Task Manager was accessed and the screenshot captured, yet the system still shows three separate Chrome processes residing in memory. Is it not reasonable to conclude that the RAM Usage is actually far from okay, given that absolutely nothing should be open? Nothing was active aside from the Task Manager itself.
Furthermore, I am currently plagued by a multitude of Service Host : Local system processes running in the background that I simply cannot seem to terminate.

I have successfully installed Avast, ensuring my system remains free from any viruses.

What should my next steps be?

Does anyone have a recommendation for which antivirus I should be using?

The issue arises immediately upon booting up Windows. While the operating system itself loads quite rapidly, problems start right away.
If you examine the Task Manager, you will notice that there are no active programs running in the background, yet my RAM Usage is hovering near 50%. Furthermore, the system behaves as though three Google Chrome windows are currently open, even though I have closed them entirely.
My current hardware configuration consists of 4 GB of RAM and an Intel G1820 2.70 processor.

Everything was functioning perfectly before this, but now, while I am in the middle of playing Civilization III, the game abruptly crashes and displays a "low memory" error message.

Casey Mitchell41 said:Try right-clicking the app you think is hogging the CPU in Task Manager and hit "Set Affinity." Just limit it to, say, 2 cores instead of 4.

I will certainly give that suggestion a try, though my primary concern remains the excessive RAM Usage. This has become a frequent issue lately, whereas previously, everything functioned without such strain. Furthermore, I attempted to upgrade to Windows 10, but the update failed to complete successfully, leaving me with nothing but a massive amount of wasted hard drive space.
It is important to emphasize that these complications were non-existent before; the computer was performing flawlessly, and I have not installed any new, resource-intensive software. Could we be looking at a potential virus, or is this simply a case of Windows 8.1 becoming unstable?

Greetings, everyone.

To provide some context, this is how my Task Manager currently appears:
http://tinypic.com/r/2i90aoi/9

I would be most grateful for any assistance you might be able to offer. Thank you!