WinXP Users: How much memory is Explorer.exe using?

[antness]

At the moment mine is at 32MB...i dunno why it's so high. i don't really have any programs open. In Win2k it's like, 3MB

 

[jaywallen]

On my notebook (256 MB RAM), the explorer.exe is currently taking about 23 megabytes and just a few percent of CPU time. Has anyone noticed how much more responsive and stable explorer.exe is under WinXP than under Win2K? At least it is on every machine here. Microsoft has definitely done some major work on the role of explorer.exe in the OS, and I think it was effort well-spent. Perhaps that means it's just going to take a larger chunk of memory?

Regards,
Jim

 

[LordEdmond]

Hi
exporer.exe = 15,312K
Ixplore.exe = 27,308K

using rc1 xp

 

[Elledan]

<< At the moment mine is at 32MB...i dunno why it's so high. i don't really have any programs open. In Win2k it's like, 3MB >>

I haven't tried XP, but in Win2k explorer.exe always takes around 3 MB. Is it just (a lot of) debugging and non-optimized code, or something else?

 

[coolVariable]

Mine is using 14 MB!