Hi Mishelle,

Any toolbar Addons? MSN Search toolbar, Yahoo Companion? The early versions
of these toolbars were problematic with memory usage and with leaving
orphaned iexplore.exe processes in the Task list.

Check for updates for these toolbars if they are installed. The Yahoo and
MSN toolbars also seem to have conflicts with each other, so if both are
installed I would recommend that you un-install one.

The MSN toolbar has been rebranded to the live brand and can be downloaded
from http://toolbar.live.com

Regards.
<mishelle10878@nohayoo.com> wrote in message
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> 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?