The volunteer spyware busters who work these anti-spyware
forums do this kind of thing all day long, so you'll be in
good hands. At times they can be a bit overwhelmed, so
please be patient while waiting for help.
Not sure if its a bug in MS Antispy or unrelated to MS
but lets see if you can free up some space.
What Windows version are you running
What size is your pagefile(virtual memory) ?
Have the initial size be at least 1.5 times bigger than
the amount of physical RAM.The maximum size is 3 times
your RAM (This should be the default anyway)
How much RAM is available?
How much memory is your system committed to?
What was the largest amount of memory your system has
ever committed itself to since the last boot?
If the pagefile gets fragmented your system's performance
will decrease. System Internals has 'PageDefrag', a free
utility that shows fragmentation in the pagefile and then
offers the option of defragmentation at boot time.
The utility can be downloaded from HERE
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pagedefrag.shtm
Once you download just unzip the file and run
pagedfrg.exe.
It may sometimes happen that the system give 'out of
memory' messages on trying to load a program, or give a
message about Virtual memory space being low. Possible
causes of this are:
The setting for maximum size of the page file is too low,
or there is not enough disk space free to expand it to
that size.
The page file has become corrupt, possibly at a bad shut-
down. In the Virtual memory settings, set to have no page
file, exit, shut down the machine and reboot. Delete
PAGEFILE.SYS (on each drive if more than just C
, set
the page file up again and reboot to bring it into use.
The page file has been put on a different drive without
leaving a minimal amount on C:.
There is trouble with third party software. If it happens
at boot and the machine has an Intel chipset, the message
may be caused by an early version (before version 2.1) of
Intel's 'Application Accelerator'. Uninstall this and
then get an up-to-date version from Intel's site.
Other things you can do to free up space :
Run the disk cleanup
Goto START then RUN and type
CLEANMGR
On the page that opens free up anything thats not needed
(temp files,recycle bin etc..) then goto to the second
page (More Options)
On the system restore part press clean up to remove all
the restore points except for your most recent one.
