internet explorer

[Guest]

Hi. I'm not sure what version of internet explorer I have, but it's the
latest official release, not the 7.x beta release. I also have Windows Xp
Home Edition, service pack 2.

I recently added 256 MB RAM to my already existing 256 MB RAM, and installed
a new anti spyware program.

It seems I don't "get" windows.

I'm not sure what it's called exactly in English, but using control-alt-del,
looking under processes I see, amongst other things: 1 process called
iexplore.exe, size 33 MB RAM, and one other process iexplore.exe, 143 MB RAM
!!! I just have 2 or three windows (if that's the right term) opened with
internet explorer. Using a utility that's part of windows, it says that
about 34 MB RAM is free.

Relevant: I am not running any applications, just the windows system,
security programs, and two or three pages opened with internet explorer.

I just don't get it: why is the internet explorer (or whatever it is)
consuming so much memory ?

I'd appreciate some enlightenment.

 

[George \(Bindar Dundat\)]

Because the RAM is being used like it was intended to be. The more RAM you
install the more RAM that will be available for use and it will get used There
would be no sense in having 512Meg with more than half of it sitting there doing
nothing. Don't worry about it, if that RAM is needed by another app it will be
released. If you don't want to see that second IE process use 143 meg then take
out one stick. The process won't have it available so it won't use it. In that
case there is just more that gets pushed to the paging file.

--
George (Bindar Dundat©)
http://dundats.mvps.org
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message | Hi. I'm not sure what version of internet explorer I have, but it's the
| latest official release, not the 7.x beta release. I also have Windows Xp
| Home Edition, service pack 2.
|
| I recently added 256 MB RAM to my already existing 256 MB RAM, and installed
| a new anti spyware program.
|
| It seems I don't "get" windows.
|
| I'm not sure what it's called exactly in English, but using control-alt-del,
| looking under processes I see, amongst other things: 1 process called
| iexplore.exe, size 33 MB RAM, and one other process iexplore.exe, 143 MB RAM
| !!! I just have 2 or three windows (if that's the right term) opened with
| internet explorer. Using a utility that's part of windows, it says that
| about 34 MB RAM is free.
|
| Relevant: I am not running any applications, just the windows system,
| security programs, and two or three pages opened with internet explorer.
|
| I just don't get it: why is the internet explorer (or whatever it is)
| consuming so much memory ?
|
| I'd appreciate some enlightenment.

 

[DanS]

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Hi. I'm not sure what version of internet explorer I have, but it's
the latest official release, not the 7.x beta release. I also have
Windows Xp Home Edition, service pack 2.

I recently added 256 MB RAM to my already existing 256 MB RAM, and
installed a new anti spyware program.

It seems I don't "get" windows.

I'm not sure what it's called exactly in English, but using
control-alt-del, looking under processes I see, amongst other things:
1 process called iexplore.exe, size 33 MB RAM, and one other process
iexplore.exe, 143 MB RAM !!! I just have 2 or three windows (if that's
the right term) opened with internet explorer. Using a utility that's
part of windows, it says that about 34 MB RAM is free.

Relevant: I am not running any applications, just the windows system,
security programs, and two or three pages opened with internet
explorer.

I just don't get it: why is the internet explorer (or whatever it is)
consuming so much memory ?

I'd appreciate some enlightenment.

Just as a note not related to your issue really but......

With IE, if you 'Open In New Window' from a link, it will open that page
in the existing IE process. I believe that the same is true when you
click on a link in an e-mail also. If there is a previous IE process, it
will use that process to open the new page.

Note, I'm saying 'process' here and not window. You can have 30, or
however many, IE windows that are all part of the same process.

You must have started IE a second time from the icon by itself, with out
clicking on something else to open it. When a new IE window is opened
that way, it starts a new 'process' space (which could again have x
amount of actual IE windows owned by it.

Why did I post this ? You did ask for some enlightenment.

(Now when you are browsing around, and hit a page that you'd like to keep
open for a while and continue browsing, you can start a new IE 'process'
and keep browsing from there. I used to do this all the time before I
switched to Firefox, because IE would always crash at the worst time, and
if one IE window of a process crashes and has to be closed, ALL IE
windows of that process are closed.)

 

[Plato]

If you add ram. You want windows to use all of it for best results. BTW,
1/2 gig ram is just enough to run XP with a few backgound apps you've
set to run 24/7.