Memory leak?

my comp slows after human being on it for a short length of time

Memory leak?

you either own a memory leak or a rouge process when it starts to slow down get to your task supervisor (CTRL_ALT_DEL) and find which process is running the CPU at 100% or as high expiration this process and the PC will speed up. find out which software app is causing it and uninstall it and re-install it
It's not a memory soak if you have norton on your system give somebody a lift it off, also check for the virous call worm this can really slow your system down. You could also have a foul trojen on their. If you are suspicious about your memory you can down nouns a program called mem-check, Write this programe next to nero as a boot disk then turn to your bios change first boot device to cd-rom .Re-boot system the programe will automatically see in if numbers appear on the bottom panel next your memory is corupt if it is replace memory with unmarked...