Re: Explorer.exe Memory Usage
- From: "Jim" <j.n@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:14:12 GMT
"Andrew" <Andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,It is entirely possible that you are needlessly worrying about this
I have a reasonably strong knowledge about XP and computers, but cannot
seem
to find the root of my issue with Explorer.exe in regards to its memory
usage. Let me start by saying that I have no spyware or viruses to my
knowledge as I use Spyware Doctor and Kaspersky Internet Security
regularly,
and have cleaned out my registry recently with ccleaner and Registry
Mechanic. I run only those services that certain websites say are required
or
recommended, despite the fact that my computer has 1 Gig of memory and an
AMD
X2 processor. It has been awhile since I did a clean install, but I'd
rather
not do so since it is quite time consuming and this issue isn't exactly
intolerable.
Basically, explorer.exe starts out at XP startup using around 20MB of RAM,
and after each Windows explorer window I load up, that number increases.
The
issue is that when I then close an Explorer window, the number does not
return back to the 20 MB, and certain folders seem to increase the RAM
usage
more than others. I have also tried running Explorer windows in separate
processes, and it is only certain times where that actually happens. The
other times those processes get built into the main explorer.exe process
despite the fact that the option is checked in the File Options.
Before running ccleaner, Explorer would seem to take up around 50MB of RAM
when idle (no Explorer Windows open or CPU usage), and afterwards it is
usually been 30 and 35MB of RAM which I know isn't absurd, but seems like
something is askew. I have worked on other computers and generally they
seem
to use around 18-25 MB of RAM for explorer.
I have run Process Explorer to see if anything is strange and I didn't
catch
anything. I have my paging file set to 1.5x my RAM, no strange Explorer
add-ons, but do use the Media Center theme for XP. I know this may not
qualify as a critical question, but this has been bothering me for a long
time, and I wonder if there is anything I can do to keep Explorer from
performing this memory leak each time I open up a new window?
Thank you very much.
situation. Most operating systems only release memory when the program
exits. They operate that way because requesting and releasing are time
consuming tasks. Hence, it is better to release at exit time.
I would expect that you are seeing such a behavior as I have very briefly
described.
Jim
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