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Ok my system has 2 gig ram, windows XP SP2 with latest patches, SP3 is planned at some point.

Basically I am noticing what seems like heavy memory usage on IE7 processes, here is what task manager shows.

iexplore.exe mem usage 137216k vm size 165016k - 1st ie 9 tabs

iexplore.exe mem usage 292576k vm size 341348k - 2nd ie 26 tabs

iexplore.exe mem usage 59406k vm size 91444k - 3 tabs

its bad enough that with 3 IE windows, outlook, plus few small apps that I am getting swapping, task manager reports PF usage as 1.6gig. If I close all the IE windows it goes down to about 300meg. Is this typical for IE7 or have I got some kind of memory leak. I read reports of people moaning about 30meg usage and I am using far more then that.

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lol it's fine man. It's normal to get swapping, windows is designed to do this. RAM not in use is wasted RAM anyways. I don't understand why so many people are freaking out about RAM actually being used by programs. RAM is SOO cheap now. If you're really worried about it, go vista x64 and get 8 gigs of ram or something.. sheesh.

Hi again, I think the problem is the flash plugin, I am not attacking IE is a good browser. Just trying to hunt down what looks like a memory leak and yes Dr_Asik keeping a lot of tabs open I know will be resource hungry but the problem seems to be a ever growing memory resource.

Today I opened a IE window with just 1 tab, started browsing sites like youtube and anything with flash content, after a few hours the IE window with 1 tab was using 300meg ram. If I leave IE open overnight whilst I sleep it is using more memory when I wake up even tho its just been idle. So I am going to disable the flash plugin for a bit and see what happens and will report back.

ok guys I found this thread on a microsoft forum.

http://forums.microsoft.com/technet/showpo...=0&pageid=2

a guy suggested disabling 3rd party extensions in advanced options and a few replied saying it had a positive affect so I toggled the option and restarted all my IE windows. Straight away it loads way faster and startup memory usage is about 1/3rd. Time will tell if the memory creeps up but this is a very positive thing. Flash java etc. still work so not sure what it disabled.

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