Re: explorer.exe memory usage

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 11/19/04


Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:51:56 +0000

BigMan wrote:

>explorer.exe is takes up about 30MB of memory (of which 12 MB are VM). Isn't
>this too much? I'm running WinXP Pro SP2 with auto updates on.
>

Quite typical. explorer.exe does a great deal more than you might
think, as the main Shell program of the system

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)


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