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Thank you for your feedback as well.
There's a 250GB Samsung Evo in there with enough free space usually.
I will check for malware.
Yea I realize Win7 is being put to bed soon; will keep that OS on this laptop for the scanning and a few other little bits and bobs though, planning to get a new proper workhose next year anyway.
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Sounds like you have plenty memory (RAM) so what about the hard drive? Insufficient memory errors can refer to the physical disk, possibly caused by memory leakage (it isn't freed up after use for some reason so you run out of memory).
Firefox on Win7 isn't usually a memory hog so if you are seeing many rather than a few instances of the browser that can indicate malware at work, so check that out.
Win7 will be end of life\out of support early next year so might be wise to look at migrating to Win10 soon and get new software for the scanner.