I run about 10 times the amount you saw in that screenshot. My comp has been up on XP [NT 5.1 2600] for 4 weeks without a reboot now, still has good memory usage and is responsive.
Programs dont kill a comp. Badly written programs will lock the os. Most spyware is very poorly written and has major resource leaks, so you all may want to use a program such as ad-aware. Another thing you may want to use is Clearmem -- I microsoft tool designed for NT4 [works on 2k/xp] which cleans up these resource leaks in both phys. and virtual memory.
I attached the exe to this post for all who are interested in using clearmem... |