Dell Inspiron 6000 crashing

[Zetto52SD]

Have an Inspiron 6000 that was crashing before because of various adware and McAfee's notoriously high usage of RAM. Got rid of McAfee and tried ot put Comodo on, but it crashed when I tried to fully install it, and now it crashes when I try to uninstall it as well. Help?

 

[shamila]

Hello zetto52SD,
crashing..?.. what message it shows?.. Did you try to install it in safe mode?.
Try to swap your RAM and reseat it..

 

[Zetto52SD]

Hello zetto52SD,
crashing..?.. what message it shows?.. Did you try to install it in safe mode?.
Try to swap your RAM and reseat it..

For a brief second before the screen goes black and the computer restarts, I'm able to see the infamous BSOD. The RAM is not the problem. It only has 2GB of RAM, but that seems to be enough to at least run the system and other programs. I can't upgrade the RAM any further, so if that's the problem in the end, then a new computer is in the future. I haven't tried to install it in safe mode yet, but would the decrease in drivers loaded help?

 

[Zetto52SD]

Hello zetto52SD,
crashing..?.. what message it shows?.. Did you try to install it in safe mode?.
Try to swap your RAM and reseat it..

For a brief second before the screen goes black and the computer restarts, I'm able to see the infamous BSOD. The RAM is not the problem. It only has 2GB of RAM, but that seems to be enough to at least run the system and other programs. I can't upgrade the RAM any further, so if that's the problem in the end, then a new computer is in the future. I haven't tried to install it in safe mode yet, but would the decrease in drivers loaded help?

 

[shamila]

Hello zetto52SD,
Did you try disk cleanup...?..
view the process in task manager that use high memory..

 

[Zetto52SD]

Hello zetto52SD,
Did you try disk cleanup...?..
view the process in task manager that use high memory..

All the processes that are running are necessary and part of the system. At least for processes over 10,000 KB of RAM usage.

 

[Zetto52SD]

Hello Zetto52SD,
What is your virtual memory set to?
Did you post your Task manager pic as possible?

The laptop only has 2 GB of physical RAM, and no VRAM that I can discern. It tracks "page files" instead of memory used, which confuses me a little bit, but I have a general idea of what page files are. And I'm not using the laptop for these posts, but I'll take a picture of it and upload it somehow. To be clearer, this is not my personal computer, but a client's computer at the shop I work at, which is part of a career center class that teaches for the CompTIA A+ certification.

 

[Zetto52SD]

Tried installing Comodo in safe mode with networking, but Comodo apparently won't install when a computer is in safe mode.