Re: Internet Explorer - enormously high memory usage
- From: "Jon Kennedy" <jkennedy2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 16:45:55 -0400
This may be caused by spyware/malware that's gotten installed on
your system. Use Ad-Aware, MSAS and/or Spybot Search & Destroy to remove it.
Microsoft Anti-Spyware (beta) http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
Ad-Aware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Good sites on how to install and use Spybot -
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/tutorial/index.html
http://tomcoyote.com/SPYBOT/index1.php
Also download a winsock repair tool, to have just in case cleaning up anything found breaks it -
Winsock repair tools:
LSPFix- all versions of Windows http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.zip
Winsock2 Fix- Win98, ME http://www.bu.edu/pcsc/internetaccess/winsock2fix.html
LavaSoft- all versions of Windows- http://digital-solutions.co.uk/lavasoft/whndnfix.zip
More information here: http://www.spywareinfo.com/ http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/Darnit.html http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/ - runs a little script when loading page to check for common parasites
If no joy, in IE go to Tools...Internet Options...Advanced tab, Browsing section, uncheck "Enable third-party browser extensions", click Apply, click Okay, reboot. If that solves your problem, then more troubleshooting is needed to find out exactly which program, or Browser Helper Object (BHO) is causing this problem. You don't want to leave it at that, as some BHOs are useful or necessary - like Adobe Acrobat for reading .pdf files or an essential component of Norton AV. Get BHODemon - http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm - read all about BHOs. Disable all items, and then gradually replace one or two at a time to narrow down the culprit.
Or if you have IE 6 SP-2 you can do this within the browser: How to manage Internet Explorer add-ons in Windows XP Service Pack 2 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;883256
If all the above fails, then the problem could be something new that the spyware cleaners above don't have in their databases yet. In that case.... HijackThis direct download: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip Tutorial on how to use HijackThis: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html Then post it's output log to the forum here for analysis and feedback by the parasite experts: http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/ Or the other HijackThis Logs forums listed here: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/forums.html
Or try this program to get some of the most nasty malware: CWShredder direct download: http://aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip
An alternate resource for all of this and more: http://www.aumha.org/secure.htm
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Jon R. Kennedy Charlotte, NC, USA jkennedy2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Injust" <injust@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eNa91MRnFHA.2472@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello,
I'm having problems with my IE. For a few days now it's been acting in a
strange way. After working for a few hours links are opened in a semi -
proper window (without File, Edit, View etc and other regular menus) and pop
ups can not be opened at all. Error in the status bar says "not enough
storage is available to complete this operation". When checking in Task
Manager IEXPLORE.EXE takes around 62,220 KB!!!
After quitting the browser completely and re-opening it works OK again but
memory usage grows up every minute.
My computer is clean of viruses and spywares. Nothing of that. 512 MB RAM
present and PF memory is managed by the system Windows XP.
Anyone has an idea what could be the reason for this problem to occur? Could
add - on be the problem?
How to solve that annoyance?
Thanks.
________________________________________________________________________
best regards, Kaniewski Dmytro, Netvision Knowledge Team & Network
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