RAM is messing up

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    My RAM is messing up. About last week I got a notice saying my computer was low on memory so I just restarted my computer and it was fine, but now it randomly does it and it will cause my computer to slow or just freeze completely. It will show my RAM at 40% and then just randomly shoot up to 95+%. Does anyone know how I can prevent this?
     
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    how much ram do you have?
     
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    1.80 GB I believe
     
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    how much space do you have left on your hard drive?
     
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    my computer says I have a total of 64.4 GB and 13.8 GB of free space
     
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    check your virtual ram settings as it uses part of the hard drive. what anti-virus & anti-spyware programs do you use?
     
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    McAfree and Norton
     
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    what it is doing is I won't even be using my computer and it says the my computer is low on memory and it slowly just rise up until the computer freezes. My memory usually starts at 45% and then it goes up to like 95% once that message comes up
     
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    does both of those programs have anti-virus & anti-spyware in them?
     
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    Yes
     
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    then get rid of 1 of them as you don't need it & should free up some ram too.
     
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