Re: Memory/Resource leak continues w/ IE 6, WinXP

Dear Rob,

Thanks.

I'm not at that PC right now, but my gut says my cache is nearly 1.5GB, but
I can double-check later. (I'd have increased them some time ago to try and
avert a separate issue I'd been having, of the History files stopping their
recording of my visited URLs after, say, 10 weeks or so even though I'd asked
for 30.)

If my cache really IS that big, THEN what? (BTW, I believe, but can try to
confirm later, that this happens even when "System Idle Process: has a large
majority of CPU "usage".)

Pls correct me if I'm wrong...I thought the issue wasn't so much, "what's
using so much memory/resources", but "why doesn't more get returned for use
by other apps, or by the system"? I say that because, please remember, I can
open a full complement of windows at the beginning...it's when I close some,
then try to open others, that this issue makes itself known.

Oh, and, suppose disabling browser extensions "seems" to resolve this --
wouldn't that be more of removing a symptom than of curing the disease...as
I'd then not be able to use the usual browser extensions that others can, and
that I'm sure I was fully able to use previously?

Thanks again.

Bram

"Rob ^_^" wrote:

Hi Bram,

The solution relies on identifying the process that is the memory hog.
Another factor may be your cache folder size settings (though I am only
guessing on this.... assume a small cache size - cpu usage increases as IE
attempts to swap data from Virtual Memory to and from the cache).

Check your cache size folder settings. Internet Options - General Tab -
Settings button - recommended 50Mb to 250Mb).

Regards.
"Bram Weiser" <BramWeiser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dear Rob,

Hello (again?) and thanks for responding to my post.

I will check later (I'm not there right now) about the browser extensions.

I've already been checking CPU usage, as you suggested, via the Task
Manager. One thing that seemed to be a big CPU user (though, I'd
presumed,
only when nothing much else is happening) is a distributed-computing
application, BOINC, from boinc.berkeley.edu. In the last couple of days,
I'd
reduced its "100% of CPU time" setting to "50%" to try and reduce exactly
what you were talking about, but, alas, this kept happening even so. :(

(Please note that this is not a new app for me...it's been there both
before
and during this experience.)

Also, maybe I wasn't clear...I'd removed the Google toolbar when this
first
started, then tried installing Yahoo!'s, thinking that might not cause it
(not that Google's should have, either...), but no go, so it, too, was
then
uninstalled.

Since then, and all through this latest episode, NO toolbars should be
installed and running.

In addition, until SP1's support ended on Oct10, I'd been "religiously"
downloading/updating what Microsoft suggested, except when it clearly
wasn't
for my system (i.e., network-related, etc.) or involved the MS
Anti-Spyware
tool, which, I've been told, isn't as great as others out there now.

So, given all this, if disabling browser extensions does NOT resolve this,
then what else can I do, please?

Thanks again! :)

Bram

"Rob ^_^" wrote:

Hi Bram,

First up disable all your browser helpers (Internet Options - Advanced
tab,
uncheck "Enable third-party browser extensions")

Restart IE.

If the problem persists, open Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) and on the
Processes tab sort them by CPU (click on the column title) to find which
process is hogging the CPU. If it is IExplore.exe then my suggestion
(well
you should do this regardless, WinXP SP1 is a bit out of date!) is to do
a
Windows update and get SP2 installed on your machine. This is quite a big
download so be prepared.

If disabling your browser helpers works then the problem lies with one of
your add-on toolbars. The Live toolbar (previously the MSN search
toolbar)
is a known memory hog (on occasions), but you can test to find the
culpret
by
1. Re-enable you browser extensions.
2. Restart IE and then disable the add-on toolbars one by one
(Tools>Manage
Addons) until you find the culpret toolbar.

Above all keep your PC up-to-date with regular Windows Updates!

Regards.
"Bram Weiser" <BramWeiser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello, again, Everyone,

(My apologies if this seems a bit familiar to some of you, as I'd
previously
posted about this here, when I suspected that this issue was somehow
related
to Google or Yahoo! toolbars, but, even though they're both uninstalled
from
my PC, this issue has appeared again, so may I please ask for your
assistance?)

For reasons that escape me, my IE 6 browser can open up its regular
complement of windows in WinXP SP1 BUT, after reaching their limit,
once I
then start to close some of them, I become unusually limited as to how
many I
can open afterward.

Usually, it's supposed to be fairly one-to-one (close one, become able
to
open another one) but, now, it's more like close two, maybe open
one...if
you're good. ;)

No, seriously, something's amiss here. This isn't supposed to happen,
and
it's like not enough memory or resources are being returned to the
system
after closing a window.

BTW, if I shut down all IE windows that remain open, I can then go
back...for a time...to opening the full complement of windows again,
and
I'm
back where I started.

Can you please guide/assist me to try and resolve this? Any questions,
please ask and I'll be happy to answer the best I can.

Thanks so much!

Bram






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