How to make a 7 year old home pc run FLASH and SPYBOT

I'd like to thank everyone for all your help. You have been great. I now know I need more memory, I know I need a model # and Manufacturer (which I don't know) so I have decided to ring a home service tech and ask him to....check the hard drive, clean the pc thoroughly and add 2 gb of memory and hopefully that will fix all.

When I have the funds that is....lol

Thank you all again very much.

Kindest Regards,

jane

Yes it shuts down only in those 2 situations.

I am not sure why would a RAM stick would shutdown a PC for any software. Clearly I have run spybot or flash videos with 512 RAM in Win XP but have not seen or experience this shutdown.

I am not sure why would a RAM stick would shutdown a PC for any software. Clearly I have run spybot or flash videos with 512 RAM in Win XP but have not seen or experience this shutdown.

Same here. I've never seen a computer shut down because of a lack of RAM unless there was a huge problem with swapping on the harddrive.

Most shutdowns are caused by overheating, bad PSU and sometimes bad RAM. I think the suggestion to buy more RAM is a wrong one and could potentially be pricey for an old machine .. .

And now I'm worried again.... 

Your hardware needs to be diagnosed before we can decide if you need more RAM if you ask me.

I suggest you do the following:

Run http://www.hdsentinel.com/ and check the health of your hard drive (s)
Run http://www.memtest86.com/ and check the health of your RAM. (This requires you to create a bootable CD which you can do with a program such as http://infrarecorder.org/)

Check your mainboard and videocard for leaking capacitors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague)

Let me know how that goes.

And as a suggestion on flash videos shutting down your computer, in relation to spybot. Uninstall spybot and try running flash videos again.