How much memory is your explorer.exe taking up (Win2k)?

[mosdef]

Why is mine taking up ~23,000k? Isn't that too much? I only have Winamp, this window, and the Windows Task Manager open. Any help to cut it down?

-mosdef

 

[jsbush]

3,712 K

that's what it says in windows task manager.

 

[Crimson]

Mine only takes up 3,620k.. no idea why yours is taking up that much.. does it show that much immediately after you reboot too?

 

[John]

3076 K

 

[mosdef]

Well my computer's been up for a while. I'm asking because I hear stories of Win2k being up for days at a time, but for me it screws up after a day or two. The numbers are lower after reboot, I'm not sure exactly where but I think (if my memory serves me correctly) that it's around 7,000k. My computer's been up for 1 day 17 hours, and about 10 minutes ago it froze for a little while before clearing up. This is really pissing me off. Any help?

-mosdef

 

[tigger80]

my explorer.exe is just under 4000KB and iexplorer is around 8MB

 

[mosdef]

Whoa... that explains everything. I don't have iexplorer, just explorer; I guess iexplorer is being included with explorer. How do I seperate the two?

-mosdef

 

[mosdef]

^

-mosdef

 

[SaturnX]

Mine runs at 2,812K, hrmm I don't think that you have IE and Explorer mixed into one, have you tried removing various startup programs and doing a fresh cold boot? Have you tried disabling Active Desktop?

--Mark

 

[fitzhue]

6,600 K
Mine even seems a little high compared to the others

 

[mosdef]

Well IE doesn't even show up on my processes list. How do I ensure Active Desktop is disabled?

-mosdef

 

[mosdef]

Ah! It's at 30,000k now!

-mosdef

 

[LickEmSmack]

ha ha... 1808K... I guess I'm just lucky, although SETI@home is taking like 14000K... It's cool, I got 512 MB.

 

[ltk007]

I thought I was the only one! Its only taking 13,000k right now, but it's been over 32,000k after a few days. WHY?

 

[tigger80]

maybe you have a lot of icons loaded up on your desktop and quicklaunch bar.

 

[skriefal]

explorer.exe is using 7.5MB total, with only about 2.8MB of that actually resident in RAM. The rest paged to disk...

 

[mosdef]

This is ridiculous... IE is at 35,708k. What I have running:
* This window.
* Windows Task Manager.
* IM
* CesarFTP
* Volume Control
* d.net client

Someone help!

-mosdef

 

[mosdef]

^

-mosdef

 

[Jal]

2,792k

 

[mosdef]

So can anyone help me? What can I do to cut down explorer.exe's size? Will I have to reinstall Windows?

-mosdef

 

[skace]

There is an option in internet explorer to 'run in a seperate process'
under advanced settings. Also I think you can run every instance of a local C:\ explorer window in a seperate process as well. If it continually eats up ram as your computer is running there is probably another problem. I usually reboot my win2k machine every month or so due to random things (lan party, serious sam2 public test).

Hope this helps,
skace

 

[mosdef]

I have IE 5.5. I don't see this option.

-mosdef

 

[Elledan]

Using IE 5.0 (Win2k), I don't see this option either.

 

[Davegod75]

3,576k

 

[Davegod75]

Iexplore.exe is your internet browser and explore.exe is your desktop. Apparently some of you have the processes combined into just explorer.exe. I have not expericenced that. To cut down on the memory usuage of explore.exe try the following:

1. Turn off Active desktop. Right click on background->properties->web and unclick show web content on my active desktop

2. Don't use some fancy smancy background. Backgounds take up a lot of memory, especially .jpgs. If you can't live without your .jpg background (which when you use, enables active desktop) convert it to a .bmp.

3. On the bar down by where the time is, the system tray, disable and/or remove all the little icons you can. I once figured out that just by having them there uses a fair bit of memory for just being an icon.

4. I've found this to work for me. The more icons on your destop the more memory explore.exe will use and the slower your computer will boot up. Remove all none essential icons off the desktop. It's not that hard to hit start->programs and find your program. For those ones you have to have quick access to, put them in the quicklanch bar. I found it doesn't use memeory like the system tray does.

5. Disable mouse pointer shadow and any fancy mouse pointer icons. They are uneeded and use memory.