Why can't i open more than 20 IE windows (v6.x)?

[JEDI]

Computer: Sempron 3100, 1gig ram, WinXP managing virtual memory

i have 2 monitors on 2 video cards:
agp: radeon 9600 128meg -> 20" LCD @ 1600x1200
PCI: Raideon 7000 64meg -> 20" LCD @ 1600x1200

I open up multiple IE windows split between the 2 LCDs. After about 20, i cant open anymore. new ones wont popup or ALL my IE windows disappear.

And if i manually close all the IE windows, i can only open about 15 new ones. It's like i lost some resources.

i have to reboot to "reset" things.

So what's wrong? and how to fix?

(And pls dont say try Firefox or IE v7 for tabbed windows. I want to find out why this is happening to my system.)

 

[Nothinman]

GDI resources for things like icons, menus, etc are shared between threads so once you hit a certain size you won't be able to open any more functional IE windows but 20 seems really low. I can't test right now but I know I've been able to open more than that in Win2K in VMWare, so I don't know why your system would be doing that.

Isn't there an option to open all new IE windows in a new process? That might take care of it.

 

[cubby1223]

I just opened 25 windows of IE 6, so it's definately not right. I'd go into the manage add-ons section and disable all add-ons then try opening 20+ copies again.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: cubby1223
I just opened 25 windows of IE 6, so it's definately not right. I'd go into the manage add-ons section and disable all add-ons then try opening 20+ copies again.

holy crap..

Add-ons:
cnavextbho class (Norton antivirus browser helper object)
Google (toolbar)
Google Toolbar helper
Norton Antivirus (toolbar) <------ WTF?! I dont have a norton antivirus toolbar
Shockwave
SSVHelper Class (Sun Java browser helper object)
SS Java Console (Sun Java browser extension)

Is this why i cant open more than 20?

If so, what can i disable?

And how do i find out how much GDI resources i'm currently using, and how many i have left? And how many each object is taking up?

Edit:
Each IE window takes up 30 meg of memory according to task manager. Does this sound normal?!?!?!?!

 

[ForumMaster]

disable norton and get that POS crap of your computer. i can open up 50 windows without a problem.

 

[Ricochet]

Originally posted by: JEDI

i have 2 monitors on 2 video cards:
agp: radeon 9600 128meg -> 20" LCD @ 1600x1200
PCI: Raideon 7000 64meg -> 20" LCD @ 1600x1200

Those seems to be unusually high video settings for those graphic cards. I wonder if that may have something to do with it. Speculation, of course. Do you have a better card with higher mem to test it out with?

BTW, I use to get porn popups in greater quantity than that.

 

[cubby1223]

Originally posted by: JEDI

Originally posted by: cubby1223
I just opened 25 windows of IE 6, so it's definately not right. I'd go into the manage add-ons section and disable all add-ons then try opening 20+ copies again.

holy crap..

Add-ons:
cnavextbho class (Norton antivirus browser helper object)
Google (toolbar)
Google Toolbar helper
Norton Antivirus (toolbar) <------ WTF?! I dont have a norton antivirus toolbar
Shockwave
SSVHelper Class (Sun Java browser helper object)
SS Java Console (Sun Java browser extension)

Is this why i cant open more than 20?

If so, what can i disable?

Disable them all. If the problem continues, than an add-on was not the fault. But if it goes away, you know one of them is the problem. And Norton probably came bundled with the Google toolbar.

Originally posted by: JEDI
Edit:
Each IE window takes up 30 meg of memory according to task manager. Does this sound normal?!?!?!?!

That's normal

Originally posted by: ricochet

Originally posted by: JEDI
i have 2 monitors on 2 video cards:
agp: radeon 9600 128meg -> 20" LCD @ 1600x1200
PCI: Raideon 7000 64meg -> 20" LCD @ 1600x1200

Those seems to be unusually high video settings for those graphic cards. I wonder if that may have something to do with it. Speculation, of course. Do you have a better card with higher mem to test it out with?

BTW, I use to get porn popups in greater quantity than that.

Those cards support that resolution. It only takes 8mb ram to display 1600x1200 at 32 bit color.