Memory Leak Help? Any Help at all??

[Shap-Diddy]

Over the last few weeks my computer (internet access I should say) has
slowed down TREMENDOUSLY. A friend suggested that I may have a memory
leak...however I have no idea what I'm looking for. My friend
suggested for me to look at the Task Manager. Here are some
stats...any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated:

The cpu numbers remain at 00 and 01.
The memory usage numbers climb though. The explorer.exe has memory
usage upwards of 180,000. While my IEXPLORE.exe climbs upwards of
70,000.

When I restart the computer, the explorer.exe falls to about 30,000
and the IEXPLORE falls to about 24,000.

I don't see any other numbers that are out of the ordinary.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE HELP!

Thanks so much.

 

[David Hollway [MVP]]

Over the last few weeks my computer (internet access I should say) has
slowed down TREMENDOUSLY. A friend suggested that I may have a memory
leak...however I have no idea what I'm looking for. My friend
suggested for me to look at the Task Manager. Here are some
stats...any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated:

The cpu numbers remain at 00 and 01.
The memory usage numbers climb though. The explorer.exe has memory
usage upwards of 180,000. While my IEXPLORE.exe climbs upwards of
70,000.

When I restart the computer, the explorer.exe falls to about 30,000
and the IEXPLORE falls to about 24,000.

I don't see any other numbers that are out of the ordinary.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE HELP!

Hi,

Have you tried scanning your PC for viruses and spyware?
There's a good free virus-scanner online here:
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

As for spyware scanners, try downloading the free Spybot Search & Destroy
tool, from
http://security.kolla.de
...or alternatively Ad-Aware, from www.lavasoft.de

On my system, Explorer.exe is currently using about 22MB. If yours is using
180MB then that is abnormal - and if you have less physical memory than is
currently allocated for all programs then your system WILL slow down
markedly as Windows has to use the virtual memory pagefile.

Hope this helps..?

 

[Guest]

before thinking it's a mem leak. did you try adaware? deleting temp files? deleting some cookies? do a virus scan? let me know.

 

[octavius schmalz]

Over the last few weeks my computer (internet access I should say) has
slowed down TREMENDOUSLY. A friend suggested that I may have a memory
leak...however I have no idea what I'm looking for. My friend suggested
for me to look at the Task Manager. Here are some stats...any suggestions
would be GREATLY appreciated:

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What does your antivirus say? Is it up to date? Do you perform a daily or
at worst, weekly scan of all your drives?

 

[Impmon]

On my system, Explorer.exe is currently using about 22MB. If yours is using
180MB then that is abnormal - and if you have less physical memory than is
currently allocated for all programs then your system WILL slow down
markedly as Windows has to use the virtual memory pagefile.

Isn't the total memory used related to the amount of RAM installed? I
doubt it though as I have 1.5GB of physical RAM installed and explorer
only uses 22MB of them.

 

[mikey]

it is not uncommon for 3rd party programs to behave abnormally.
it might help if you listed any none MS programs you are using.

one thing I do shen things start to slow down, is ot delete the contents of the prefetch folder and reboot.
just the contents not the folder.
usually
c:\windows\prefetch




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Over the last few weeks my computer (internet access I should say) has
slowed down TREMENDOUSLY. A friend suggested that I may have a memory
leak...however I have no idea what I'm looking for. My friend
suggested for me to look at the Task Manager. Here are some
stats...any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated:

The cpu numbers remain at 00 and 01.
The memory usage numbers climb though. The explorer.exe has memory
usage upwards of 180,000. While my IEXPLORE.exe climbs upwards of
70,000.

When I restart the computer, the explorer.exe falls to about 30,000
and the IEXPLORE falls to about 24,000.

I don't see any other numbers that are out of the ordinary.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE HELP!

Thanks so much.