Okay, so, yesterday, I had my laptop downloading Maple Story, and I left it running for three hours while I went to have dinner with my dad. But when I got back, it kept … almost freezing up. A buncha programs would suddenly take a minute and a half to click between two windows, and I could just not do anything with them.
Things got really weird when I checked the task manager this morning, and saw that Firefox (which was behind another window) was taking up 500 kilobytes of memory. That’s right: less than Bill Gates’ estimate in 1983 of what “should be enough for everyone.” I clicked onto Firefox and it inflated back to six or seven MB (it’s taking up 25,868k right now), but this keeps happening: individual programs are almost freezing up and whatnot.
EDIT: Oh yeah, another weird symptom: stuff sometimes disappears from the taskbar (but reappearing when I alt-tab to 'em), and sometimes duplicating themselves. In fact, one window I know I closed reappeared a few times before I did a full shutdown (which seems to have had no effect).