Several applications including all of the Office 2003 suite do not leave
memory when shutdown. Some applications will not restart until they are
killed in the task manager.
Firefox used to do it, but the latest version has stopped the problem.
However Corel Paint Shop Pro X2 does, as does Word, Excel, Outlook, and
PowerPoint. IE has never done this in any of its iterations.
This also happened in XP SP2 so upgrading to SP3 did not help.
If I start and shutdown one of the offending apps a number of times all of
the copies remain in memory and really slow things down.
This happened after a series of upgrades were carried out automatically, but
i cannot determine which sequence of upgrades started the problem.

Help I am going nuts trying to find this problem, it is not just to fix it
now, this is a challenge and I will beat it! I hope....

Ed

The problem lies with the programmes not the operating system. If you
have your computer on 24/7 then you are making the problem worse.
Solution simple! Restart the computer after closing the programme.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Ed wrote:
> Several applications including all of the Office 2003 suite do not
> leave memory when shutdown. Some applications will not restart until
> they are killed in the task manager.
> Firefox used to do it, but the latest version has stopped the problem.
> However Corel Paint Shop Pro X2 does, as does Word, Excel, Outlook,
> and PowerPoint. IE has never done this in any of its iterations.
> This also happened in XP SP2 so upgrading to SP3 did not help.
> If I start and shutdown one of the offending apps a number of times
> all of the copies remain in memory and really slow things down.
> This happened after a series of upgrades were carried out
> automatically, but i cannot determine which sequence of upgrades
> started the problem.
>
> Help I am going nuts trying to find this problem, it is not just to
> fix it now, this is a challenge and I will beat it! I hope....