In news:OYednb9DYf47XbLYnZ2dnUVZ_sCdnZ2d@giganews.com ,
mishelle10878@nohayoo.com had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> I've noticed that after surfing and opening several IE 6 browsers
> simultaneously, and then closing all except one, I'll see a very large
> amount of mem usage for IEXPLORE.exe in my Task Manager. Sometimes
> it's as large as 130 mg. In addition, even after closing all
> browsers, I'll see that IEXPLORE.exe is still running with the heavy
> mem usage (although the CPU time is idle).
>
> When the mem usage is heavy and several browsers are open, I'll
> occasionally lose the ability to start any program, and also have
> noticed that half my start menu is lost. If I select a link and
> choose "open in new window", either a blank window will open, or no
> window at all.
> After I close all programs, and end the IEXPLORE.exe task, do I have
> the ability to run a program again.
>
> I've done a search for all versions of IEXPLORE.exe to see if there
> is any spyware involved and the only version other than in the IE 6
> directory is iexplore.exe one in the system32\dll cache. Hijackthis
> also shows a pretty clean system registry (as I watch my Task Manager
> on a regular basis and try to not have too much running other than
> Zone Alarm, my AV program and MS Win Defender).
>
>
> I've run Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware, CWS Shredder, A-Squared and use
> IE-Spyad along with the MVPS HOSTS file. I'm wondering if it could
> be the latter two with all the restricted sites that wind up in the
> cache, that is causing the heavy mem usage.
>
> I'm running Win 2000 Pro with 384 mg ram. Is this a trojan or a
> memory issue? I was thinking of creating a new pagefile.sys file.
> Would that help?

How about a wild stab in the dark? Those are always fun... (I doubt a new
pagefile would help any by the way.)

Anyhow, how about looking at browser helper objects to see if any of those
are causing the slowdown and holding onto additional memory? There are a
variety of ways but the simplest is to simply disable 'em all and then add
'em back one by one until you see the process repeat itself. Or, of course,
seeing if removing them didn't help at all will tell you that is not the
issue.

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