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It depends...Please anwer these questions:1) How old is your PC?2) What version of Internet Explorer do you have?-MIFRAS

You might try this free diagnostic utility http://www.memtest86.com/ to see if it finds hardware issues with your computer. Also, do you have AntiVirus software? If not, consider the freely available http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

I'm guessing you see this in Task Manager and you have chosen to display the Page Faults column?If that is the case, since the Page Faults column is not usually displayed, if you enabled it, perhaps you are looking for some performance issue.A Page Fault does not mean there is a problem. A Page Fault generally means the application needs some data that is not in the physical memory (RAM) at the time. When the application needs some data that is not in the local memory and has to retrieve it from the Paging File on the hard disk that is one way you will see a Page Fault generated.It sounds sort of bad since it has the word "Fault" in it, but it is really normal. If you invoke your Task Manager after a reboot (don't use any browser), all the applications are likely to have at least some page Faults even though you just rebooted and haven't "done" anything yet.Some applications might generate a few hundred or few thousand Page Faults on a restart and then not change. The only thing in Task Manager that will have zero Page Faults is the System Idle Process, but that is a special case.Knowing what a Page Fault is, you can understand that if your system might not have enough RAM for your operations, then XP is going to need to go out to the Paging File more often to get the stuff it needs because the stuff it needs might not be in RAM when it needs it. Every time it does that, you will have a Page Fault. The less RAM you have, the more your applications will have to hit the Paging File to get their data, but you may be able to control some of that, and you may not even "notice" the Page Faults at all - they are happening all the time.You might then think that if you turned off your Paging File and ran with no Paging File, you would see zero Page Faults in Task Manager. That sounds good, but that is not the way things work. XP works best when you have a Paging File set to System Managed Size (usually) so you would probably not want to run without a Paging File. The reason you would still see Page Faults in Task Manager is because there are hard Page Faults and soft Page Faults, and you would be seeing soft Page Faults.A hard Page fault would be an access to the Paging File on the hard disk. A soft Page Fault would just be a shuffling or rearranging of things that are in already in memory. Task Manager just lumps them all into the Page Fault column and you can't tell the difference.Since Task Manager lumps both kinds of page Faults into one column you will need other performance monitoring tools with more granularity (like Perfmon) that allow you to separate Page Faults into soft Page Faults and hard Page Faults. If you turn off your Paging File and use Perfmon to split the Page Faults up into the different types and track them separately, and have no Paging File, you will see zero hard Page Faults, but still see soft Page Faults as a separate counter.I ran XP for a l-o-n-g time with only 256MB of RAM and was quite satisfied with it for several years once I got things dialed in.The more your system and those applications run, the more Page Faults will accumulate for that application until the application ends and restarts, then the Page Fault counters starts over again and will keep going up, up, up. I don't think you will see them going down but you can start them over by restarting the application.if you think your system even might have some malicious software, I would do this no matter what else you are using for antimalware/antivirus protection:Download, install, update and do a full scan with these free malware detection programs:Malwarebytes (MBAM): http://malwarebytes.org/SUPERAntiSpyware: (SAS): http://www.superantispyware.com/They can be uninstalled later if desired.Reboot your computer and troubleshoot remaining issues.If you still think you are having a problem, then let's get some vitals on the patient:What is your system make and model?What is your XP Version and Service Pack?Describe your current antivirus and anti malware situation: McAfee, Symantec, Norton, Spybot, AVG, Avira!, MSE, Panda, Trend Micro, CA, Defender, ZoneAlarm, PC Tools, Comodo, etc.Click Start, Run and in the box enter:msinfo32Click OK, and when the System Summary info appears, click Edit, Select All, Copy and then paste the information back here.For video driver information, expand the Components, click Display, click Edit, Select All, Copy and then paste the information back here.There will be some personal information (like System Name and User Name), and whatever appears to be private information to you, just delete it from the pasted information.This will minimize back and forth Q&A and eliminate guesswork.Do, or do not. There is no try.Somebody please tell me how to prepare figgy pudding as these children keep saying they won't go until they get some.I decided to save up points for a new puppy instead of a pony!

I'm guessing you see this in Task Manager and you have chosen to display the Page Faults column?If that is the case, since the Page Faults column is not usually displayed, if you enabled it, perhaps you are looking for some performance issue.A Page Fault does not mean there is a problem. A Page Fault means the application needs some data that is not in the physical memory (RAM) at the time. When the application needs some data that is not in the local memory, the application must retrieve the information from the Paging File on the hard disk and that will generate a Page Fault.It sounds sort of bad, but it is really normal. If you invoke your Task Manager after a reboot (don't use any browser), all the applications are likely to have at least some page Faults even though you just rebooted and haven't "done" anything yet.Some applications might generate a few hundred or few thousand Page Faults on a restart and then not change. The only thing in Task Manager that will have zero Page Faults is the System Idle Process, but that is a special case.Knowing what a Page Fault is, you can understand that if your system might not have enough RAM for your operations, then XP is going to need to go out to the Paging File more often to get the stuff it needs because the stuff it needs might not be in RAM when it needs it. Every time it does that, you will have a Page Fault. The less RAM you have, the more your applications will have to hit the Paging File to get their data, but you may be able to control some of that, and you may not even "notice" the Page Faults at all - they are happening all the time.I ran XP for a l-o-n-g time with only 256MB of RAM and was quite satisfied with it for several years once I got things dialed in. If you can get XP to behave with 256MB of RAM, getting XP to behave with more RAM is a breeze.The more your system and those applications run, the more Page Faults will accumulate for that application until the application ends and restarts, then the Page Fault counters starts over again and will keep going up, up, up. I don't think you will see them going down but you can start them over by restarting the application.if you think your system even might have some malicious software, I would do this no matter what else you are using for antimalware/antivirus protection:Download, install, update and do a full scan with these free malware detection programs:Malwarebytes (MBAM): http://malwarebytes.org/SUPERAntiSpyware: (SAS): http://www.superantispyware.com/They can be uninstalled later if desired.Reboot your computer and troubleshoot remaining issues.If you still think you are having a problem, then let's get some vitals on the patient:What is your system make and model?What is your XP Version and Service Pack?Describe your current antivirus and anti malware situation: McAfee, Symantec, Norton, Spybot, AVG, Avira!, MSE, Panda, Trend Micro, CA, Defender, ZoneAlarm, PC Tools, Comodo, etc.Click Start, Run and in the box enter:msinfo32Click OK, and when the System Summary info appears, click Edit, Select All, Copy and then paste the information back here.For video driver information, expand the Components, click Display, click Edit, Select All, Copy and then paste the information back here.There will be some personal information (like System Name and User Name), and whatever appears to be private information to you, just delete it from the pasted information.This will minimize back and forth Q&A and eliminate guesswork.Do, or do not. There is no try.Somebody please tell me how to prepare figgy pudding as these children keep saying they won't go until they get some.I decided to save up points for a new puppy instead of a pony!

I'm guessing you see this in Task Manager and you have chosen to display the Page Faults column?If that is the case, since the Page Faults column is not usually displayed, if you enabled it, perhaps you are looking for some performance issue.A Page Fault does not mean there is a problem. A Page Fault means the application needs some data that is not in the physical memory (RAM) at the time. When the application needs some data that is not in the local memory, the application must retrieve the information from the Paging File on the hard disk and that will generate a Page Fault.It sounds sort of bad, but it is really normal. If you invoke your Task Manager after a reboot (don't use any browser), all the applications are likely to have at least some page Faults even though you just rebooted and haven't "done" anything yet.Some applications might generate a few hundred or few thousand Page Faults on a restart and then not change. The only thing in Task Manager that will have zero Page Faults is the System Idle Process, but that is a special case.Knowing what a Page Fault is, you can understand that if your system might not have enough RAM for your operations, then XP is going to need to go out to the Paging File more often to get the stuff it needs because the stuff it needs might not be in RAM when it needs it. Every time it does that, you will have a Page Fault. The less RAM you have, the more your applications will have to hit the Paging File to get their data, but you may be able to control some of that.I ran XP for a l-o-n-g time with only 256MB of RAM and was quite satisfied with it for several years once I got things dialed in. If you can get XP to behave with 256MB of RAM, getting XP to behave with more RAM is a breeze.The more your system and those applications run, the more Page Faults will accumulate for that application until the application ends and restarts, then the Page Fault counters starts over again and will keep going up, up, up. I don't think you will see them going down but you can start them over by restarting the application.if you think your system even might have some malicious software, I would do this no matter what else you are using for antimalware/antivirus protection:Download, install, update and do a full scan with these free malware detection programs:Malwarebytes (MBAM): http://malwarebytes.org/SUPERAntiSpyware: (SAS): http://www.superantispyware.com/They can be uninstalled later if desired.Reboot your computer and troubleshoot remaining issues.If you still think you are having a problem, then let's get some vitals on the patient:What is your system make and model?What is your XP Version and Service Pack?Describe your current antivirus and anti malware situation: McAfee, Symantec, Norton, Spybot, AVG, Avira!, MSE, Panda, Trend Micro, CA, Defender, ZoneAlarm, PC Tools, Comodo, etc.Click Start, Run and in the box enter:msinfo32Click OK, and when the System Summary info appears, click Edit, Select All, Copy and then paste the information back here.For video driver information, expand the Components, click Display, click Edit, Select All, Copy and then paste the information back here.There will be some personal information (like System Name and User Name), and whatever appears to be private information to you, just delete it from the pasted information.This will minimize back and forth Q&A and eliminate guesswork.Do, or do not. There is no try.Somebody please tell me how to prepare figgy pudding as these children keep saying they won't go until they get some.I decided to save up points for a new puppy instead of a pony!