You should not be seeing that with the amount of RAM  you have.

Is Windows updated with all critical patches, and are you running current antivirus, antispyware and firewall software?

What OS are you running?

Yes to all of the above.  I have Windows XP Home Edition.  Can I get your opinion on a software called "Spyware Begone?"  Is it good and effective and should it be something that I should get?

Spyware Begone is in a reliable list of rogue (bad) antispyware programs.  See the following:

http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_anti-spyware.htm

Steve

Okay forget that one then.  How about Ad-aware and Spybot S&D?  I have those two and ran a scan and it told me I had like 50 things that it detected.  I'm just not sure if it's okay to destroy these or not because I really don't know much about these things and don't want to delete something I need.  All the things listed in Spybot were all in red which means I can get rid of but I was a little leary about one that said DCON which the details say downloaded program files because I don't know if this is something I should keep or not.  Also there was a lot that said Back Web lite, which there was a whole lot of these, not sure if it's okay to get rid of all these either.  Like I said these are all in red.  What do you think?

Everything Spybot and Ad-Aware find is bad stuff.  Get rid of it all. 

Steve

Spybot 1.3 is out there now. Not everything adaware or spybot reports is actually bad stuff.. some dso exploits are often reported incorrectly, and adaware will find all cookies, even friendly.

Even with the false positives and the sometimes not so bad cookies that spybot and ad-aware find, my advice stands!!! Let these programs remove everything they find.!!!!

Steve

Okay Steve, thanks for that advice.  I know it found a lot of stuff so I will go and do that and remove it all.  So what is that one it found called DCON and when I clicked details it said downloaded program files.  It was also in red, if I get rid of this is it okay? 

sorry, thats silly advice, make sure you investigate things it finds before you remove something you shouldnt.

Thanks again Steve.  I did what you said and everything looks fine.  I have half of my regular drive free now so will leave it like that and start installing things onto my slave drive now which is 160GB.