explorer.exe using 37,000+ Mem Usage

TroganTrogan London, UK
edited November 2004 in Hardware
Task Manager is showin explorer.exe as using 37,124 Mem Usage (currently) and I know that cannot be right. It's only showing 37,000+ plus on my user account and its less than 5,000 Mem Usage on my brother & sisters account.

I know explorer.exe is legit and is used for IE.

What could be causing that high amount of Mem Usage?
Look at Mem Usage in the pic...Thanks

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  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited November 2004
    explorer.exe is legit, but it's not used for IE, that's iexplore.exe.

    Do you have multiple users logged into the computer? Have a lot of explorer windows open? Using big pretty wallpapers? Themes service enabled? All of that stuff takes up some memory.

    I see it's not using any cpu cycles, did explorer recently finish doing something, and perhaps didn't yet delete it from memory??

    Don't listen to me I'm just guessin'! :D
  • TroganTrogan London, UK
    edited November 2004
    lol your guessing can lead to great achievements :D;D

    Anyways to answer your questions quickly.

    1) Yes the other users are still logged in, as usual. (we switch user rather than log off - its quicker :D:cool: )
    2) No, not a lot explorer windows open, like I said my Task Manager is showing less than 5,000 Mem usage for my brother's and sister's account unlike my DAMN account it showing 37,000 :confused:
    3) Wallpaper? Yes. Big? Dunno ;D but i've had the same wallpaper for about 3 months
    4) No themes - I Think?

    Thanks
  • PirateNinjaPirateNinja Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    try ending task explorer.exe .. then go file run explorer

    see if restarting it helps at all. that oculd help us diagnose what is causing it to use as much meory. perhaps there is alot of stuff going on in your shell
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited November 2004
    The longer you have windows up the more and more memory that file will use. A reboot will bring it back to normal memory usage.

    Also windows as well as many other windows apps are horrible with memory leaks.
  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    my xp has been on for about 19 days, and explorer is only using about 15,000
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited November 2004
    I guess it also depends on what you are running atm as well. Mine is at 26mb and up since Saturday because of a power outage.
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited November 2004
    26 and 27 megs... why do I have 2?
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited November 2004
    Go ahead and close both and open a fresh version.
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited November 2004
    Cool, that worked :). At about 24 now, single. The question is, why did I have two? Just over 6 days uptime (see in sig if you want ;)) and it had two... which is weird. (Sorry for thread-crapping, Trogan! :()
  • TroganTrogan London, UK
    edited November 2004
    It's cool entropy, your problem is solved :)

    OK, I've rebooted several times and now explorer.exe hangs around 20,000 of mem usage which is fine with me BUT now iexplorer.exe has gone to almost 45,000 of mem usage - someone plese tell me what the hell is going on? :bawling:

    Thank You
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited November 2004
    Trogan_1000 wrote:
    Task Manager is showin explorer.exe as using 37,124 Mem Usage (currently) and I know that cannot be right. It's only showing 37,000+ plus on my user account and its less than 5,000 Mem Usage on my brother & sisters account.

    I know explorer.exe is legit and is used for IE.

    What could be causing that high amount of Mem Usage?
    Look at Mem Usage in the pic...Thanks
    Turn the xp theme off or stop complaneing :p .

    edit:btw iexploror is internet exploror (worste web browser ever)
    exploror.exe is the windows exploror (the xp theme and the gui)

    get mozilla firefox and dont ever launch m$ie again
    www.mozilla.com
    leishi85 wrote:
    my xp has been on for about 19 days, and explorer is only using about 15,000

    Yes but u have the xp theme off and u have striped down the services havent you :P
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited November 2004
    I think 21 megs for explorer is pretty normal. The memory usage for iexplore (Internet Explorer) all depends on what you are doing with that browser. If you have multiple site and sites with a lot of pictures and other stuff then 41 megs is also pretty normal.

    My computer has the themes service disables, but I'm too lazy to go and check memory usage for you nto compare to. :p
  • TroganTrogan London, UK
    edited November 2004
    Thanks everyone. Everything is calm again - I hope :)
  • PirateNinjaPirateNinja Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    entropy you may want to reboot and see if another explorer.exe comes up

    and double check to make sure its not explorerer.exe or something similiar but not the same, if another does come up. one of them is most likely not legit. id guess a virus.
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