Strange memory consumption by WinXP ?

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Hello,

I have noticed a very strange behaviour lately (since about a week by now)
when it comes to memory consumption of WinXP.

Most of the times, when I boot WinXP the task-manager shows a memory
consumption of about 100MB.

But suddenly, and for no apparent reason these 100MB become about 500MB when
I boot my machine again.

I have tried in vain to isolate the problem by restoring earlier (Drive
Image) images of my hard-disk and by playing with the WinXP restore feature.

Did anybody have this problem before? and is there a reason/solution for it?

Thanks
 
On Task Manager under View select "Select Columns..."
Then either VM Size or Mem Usage should help you see what is using
memory.
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Todd

I have noticed a very strange behaviour lately (since about a week by now)
when it comes to memory consumption of WinXP.
Click to expand...
Most of the times, when I boot WinXP the task-manager shows a memory
consumption of about 100MB.
Click to expand...
 
Thanks Todd,
I should have said it in my first post, sorry.
All the processes are taking up 3 to 4 times the "normal" amount of memory.
This is really very odd, I've never seen this before.


On Task Manager under View select "Select Columns..."
Then either VM Size or Mem Usage should help you see what is using
memory.
-
Todd

I have noticed a very strange behaviour lately (since about a week by now)
when it comes to memory consumption of WinXP.
Click to expand...
Most of the times, when I boot WinXP the task-manager shows a memory
consumption of about 100MB.
Click to expand...
 
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