Re: All processes eat too much memory (please no spyware removal advices)

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From: ProJee (projee_at_metacreations.org)
Date: 07/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:57:09 +0200

Hi,

To check out what's the problem, I formatted my hard drive (no files
even at other disk partitions) and installed Windows XP, Visual
Studio.NET, Office and all basic stuff that I need for the development.
(All from vendor CDs or my own programs.) WITHOUT having the internet
connection!

I ran antivirus (with the most recent database) + adaware for sure, have
XP SP1 with security updates (maybe not all, I'm not sure but I don't
think this is the reason)

You can be sure there's no process running that would cause that, I know
all the processes personally;) and their purpose, too. I always work
with task manager running in the systray... If something new appears, I
know about it.

thanks for your time.

ProJee

Shenan Stanley wrote:
> ProJee wrote:
>
>>Most processes running on my PC eat too much memory.
>>(I've got 1GB of physical memory)
>>
>>explorer.exe -> open task manager, go into "My computer" and
>>click F5 (refresh) several times. each refresh increases memory
>>consumption several megabytes higher.. it never gets lower again.
>>
>>All other processes do the same, when I use excel (for VBA
>>programming) + visual studio, asp.net and all that stuff around for
>>several hours and then look into the task manager,
>>
>>explorer.exe uses about 200MB, visual studio 300-500MB, excel .. 200MB
>>
>>My machine is clean. No spyware, viruses and stuff. No executables
>>that could cause this are running...
>
>
> You say explorer is using 200MB of RAM? And you don't think you have any
> sort of Virus/trojan/worm/spyware/adware/malware at all - but you don't
> state why.
>
> How many processes do you have running after a clean boot?
> Can you post a list of these processes and their memory use after a reboot?
>

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