Explorer uses lot's of Memory

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Steve Makris

Explorer.exe often reports using a lot of memory, often
over 90,000 K, and that after using programs like
Photoshop 7 and CS, Roxio CD Creator 6, Word
2003...bringing me over my 512 RAM limit and slower
virtual memory prefomance. Even if I close all Apps.
Rebooting is the only way I get my memory back?
What would cause this?
Thx Steve
 
Explorer.exe often reports using a lot of memory, often
over 90,000 K, and that after using programs like
Photoshop 7 and CS, Roxio CD Creator 6, Word
2003...bringing me over my 512 RAM limit and slower
virtual memory prefomance. Even if I close all Apps.
Rebooting is the only way I get my memory back?
What would cause this?
Thx Steve
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Steve,

Photoshop and Roxio themselves do use a lot of memory - high power
audio / video applications use a lot of resources. 512M RAM is not a
huge amount of memory for WinXP and audio / video - processing high
res photos and music is intensive. Memory leaks are normal in
software too.

Everybody reboots occasionally. Daily reboots are not a bad idea, I
reboot generally a couple times / week. How often to you reboot cause
of your memory problem?

Many folks running WinXP on high powered systems (2GHz and up) have a
1G RAM too. RAM is cheap.

It wouldn't hurt you to check for spyware - that can eat up cpu and
memory. SWI Forums is a good place to get help for that. You'll run
Spybot S&D and HijackThis (both free). Start here for instructions:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=5187

I presume you have good antivirus protection already. If not, get
something - for everybody's sake.

Cheers,

Chuck
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Thx for your prompt reply Chuck...I do have Norton 2004
and all, but what I don't know why memory isn't released
after all programs are closed...it just keeps building
up...and yes, I do reboot often. Steve
 
Thx for your prompt reply Chuck...I do have Norton 2004
and all, but what I don't know why memory isn't released
after all programs are closed...it just keeps building
up...and yes, I do reboot often. Steve
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Steve,

Memory leaks are a normal problem with software. Programs which use
larger amounts of memory will probably leak memory in larger amount.
Regular reboot is sometimes the best solution.

Cheers,

Chuck
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