Slow task bar and explorer memory leak

[Guest]

I upgraded my dual core p4 2.8 PC with 2Gb of RAM and a 300Gb SATA drive to
Vista Ultimate.

Generally the performace is quite good except:

The task bar and start menu frequently lock up. I can double click icons on
the desktop and program start fine. If there are any running programs I can
alt+tab to them fine but if I try to click on the task bar I end up waiting
quite a while.

Also explorer.exe seems to use a lot of RAM upwards of 85Mb even when it is
just sitting there doing nothing.

I am getting very frustrated. I have googled but have not found anyone with
similiar experiences.

Anyone have any suggestions?

I would really hate to do a clean install as I have a lot of software I
would also have to reinstall and configure.

 

[cpet]

Hello,
Could be bad ram, try checking it with windows memory diagnostic.
Explorer uses quite a lot of ram even for me. Try using Windows Adviser
to see if all your software is compatible with Vista. A simple piece of
software which ties itself to explorer can and will use a lot of ram
plus whats 85 megs to your 2 gig ? If this was an upgrade try removing
the user and adding it again that fixed about 78% of the issues i was
having with programs, and crashes with dllhost,rundll etc.. for reason i
can't explain but it worked.

-Chris

 

[Guest]

I checked the RAM and no errors.

A couple of other symptons and details:
1. The PC is a member of a 2003 domain
2. It takes at least 3-4 full minutes to log on