How do i decrease the amount of RAM my computer uses?

Question

i have windows vista home premium with 2gb of RAM. however, when i only run firefox, my computer uses 80-82% of RAM. i also get runtime errors and now my computer has reverted to the windows basic visual theme. i suspect these are related so how do i fix this and get back to home premium visuals? please answer if you know how! thanks!

Answer 1

your problem here is vista takes about 1 gig of ram to run its processes and advanced gui, if you don't want to buy more ram disable vista areo as it takes alota ram and try not to run alota things at once. also consider it may be your cpu at fault aswell.

Answer 2

Run a virus checker (kaspersky online) and get "Spybot Search and Destroy" and "Spyware Blaster"

It's very likely that you have caught some nasties.