IE6 memory problems and extra Dll's

[TomM]

have been told that on our corporate LAN, when we load IE6, it also loads
into memory several DLL's, which are related to our AV product. This gives
the impression the IE6 is using a large amount of memory, compared to a
version which is loaded with no AV product.

It has been suggested to me that these Dll's are loaded with each subsequent
launch of IE6. We may therefore have several instances of IE6 open, each
with this seemingly large memory footprint.

I would have thought that these Dll's, would have been loaded into memory
only once, and then referenced by the other instances of IE6. I would not
think that they would be loaded each time a new instance IE6 was launched

Does anyone know how I can prove this either way?. We are running Windows
XP SP2

I have also posted tjis item in the newsgroup " Internet Explorer 6
General", so I apologise to anyone who may have read/answered it there

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Process Explorer from SystemInternals would certainly tell you that. Your
problem is defining your AV apps 'expected behavior'

Process Explorer for Windows :
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx

 

[TomM]

I aplologise, I've been away for a bit.

Process Explorer will show up each instance of IE6 which is open. Under the
DLL's window for any one of these instances, I can see the DLL's listed, but
cannot determine if they are being "loaded" more than once and are taking up
memory. On checking any one of the Dll's, for each open instances, the
"load" address is the same, leading me to think that it is only loaded once
and not for each running instance of IE ?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

That's true. If the dlls were loading more than once, there would be a
memory address difference.

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I aplologise, I've been away for a bit.

Process Explorer will show up each instance of IE6 which is open. Under
the
DLL's window for any one of these instances, I can see the DLL's listed,
but
cannot determine if they are being "loaded" more than once and are taking
up
memory. On checking any one of the Dll's, for each open instances, the
"load" address is the same, leading me to think that it is only loaded
once
and not for each running instance of IE ?

 

[TomM]

Thanks Mark,

As you can propbaly tell, I'm masquerading as a Techie. It's good to have
some confirmation of what I "thought" was going on