The processor on here is listed as AMD Athlon (tm) II P-320 Dual Core. Memory is shown as 241gb free out of 286gb. Other than their usual anti-virus, I don’t recall having run the TDSS Killer. I can try running that when this is done, but I have no idea how long this program is going to take (now at 2hrs, 45min — and still showing no objects detected).
I think that's referring to disk space available on your hard drive.
The memory I'm talking about should be from 2Gb to 8Gb on a new machine, it's basically random access memory (on memory chips) so the computer is not dependent heavily on the disk page file (slow) system,(this is a basic, basic explanation). I would also recommend that you close all windows, Internet, games, etc. etc. and let Malwarebytes run by itself. Think that's how they recommend running it.
Regular dynamic memory is usually constrained to 16 or 32 gb using either 4 memory sticks at 4gb each yielding 16 GB or 4 sticks at 8 GB each yielding 32 GB total. That is an extremely large physical memory size for personal computers.
Please note that some Intel motherboards are capable of holding SIX memory sticks.
Dynamic memory stick size is critical to understand properly because it determines your hibernate file (hiberfil) size which is the same as your dynamic memory size.
Your swap file should be large enough to contain everything that you have running and is usually set as 1.5 times your dynamic memory size but if you have enough physical memory to contain everything that you are running your swap file doesn't have to be that large.
I would recommend that you cut down on your ‘swap file’ size to about 4 gb and set it using the ‘custom size’ setting with BOTH the minimum and Maximum size being the same. I also recommend if possible placing your swap file onto a different hard drive than your boot or C: drive.
Windows by default sets up an fairly small swap file with different minimum and maximum file sizes. When windows first starts up it will create a minimum size swap file and then gradually increase it as more programs get loaded which results in a highly fragmented swap file along with all of the intertwined files on that same disk also getting fragmented. I have 16 GB of dynamic memory along with a swap file size of only 4 GB and I have plenty of ‘free memory’ available. I would recommend that you delete all but the last two ‘restore points’, do a disk clean up, turn off the hibernate mode, and then delete the no longer used ‘hiberfil’. After all of that, then do a defrag using a program like ‘perfect disk’. Win 7 has a lot of tasks running in the background and it is constantly opening and closing various log files while often keeping several copies of each file. These are usually small files but with multiple copies being created and deleted the hard disk tends to get fragmented very quickly.
My own system runs Win 7 Pro on a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 motherboard with an AMD Phenom II 6 core 1090T black edition processor. I am using FOUR 4GB memory sticks for a total of 16 gb of memory to be updated to 32 gb when some extra cash comes in.
My boot drive is a Patriot Pyro 60 gb SSD which reads over 550 MB per second.
My ‘working’ disks are SEVEN 1.5 TB hard drives + ONE 2 TB hard drive + two 3TB hard drives. In other words a pretty high end machine. I keep all of my hard drives other than the 60 gb SSD boot drive defragmented on a weekly basis.
I have a very highly tuned system but from time to time I still experience various slow downs and pauses while WIN 7 performs background maintenance tasks.
If you are using a Solid State Disk (SSD) I would recommend the following site for tuning tips: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/70822-ssd-tweaks-optimizations-windows-7-a.html SSDs are very tricky about proper alignment and suffer greatly if the drive isn't formatted and aligned prior to OS installation.
I also recommend the following site: http://thessdreview.com/ssd-guides/optimization-guides/the-windows-7-optimization-guide/ for general win 7 tuning tips.
I personally don't use any windows ‘restore points’ but rely instead on periodic backups using Acronis True Image. If you don't have a backup/recovery program like Acronis and have to rely on Windows to make periodic restore points be advised that windows often creates more restore points than what we are aware of while deleting the oldest ones based on time and space constraints which further adds to the fragmentation problems.
If you aren't using the hibernate function, then disable it and delete the hiberfil which takes up as much disk space as your memory size.
There is simply no getting round defragging your boot drive if it isn't a SSD. If your boot drive is a SSD and it is correctly set up win 7 uses it's ‘Trim’ function to AUTUMATICALLY keep fragmentation from happening. One should never defrag a SSD and especially don't regularly defrag it.