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IE is using 2.5gb of memory, that seems a tad excessive...?
I've been having problems with my PC where sometimes when I have a lot of apps open is will slow to a crawl, and sometimes it will nearly freeze up. eg. when pressing alt-ctrl-del to get up the task manager the screen goes black for a minute or two before it comes up with the blue screen to select task manager from, then another minute or two to get back to the desktop and get task manager running - ie. reeeeally slow!
When it does this task man reports the cpu as around 90% idle, so not a cpu issue, but I eventually traced what I think it the problem to the free memory. If I open the resource monitor and look at the memory I can see the 'free' memory go right down to zero. I don't know why it does that when there is still 2-3gb in 'standyby' but that's what it does. And when I see the free memory hit zero the system slows up, and if I shut IE down the free mem goes right back up and the system is fine - so pretty sure that's the problem.
Looking down the list of what's hogging all this memory (on a 6gb PC) iexplore.exe is listed 8 times, with most of the instances using 100-200mb each, but one using a whopping 500mb! I have 1 copy of IE running with 13 (now 14) tabs open - hardly excessive.
So what's causing the massive memory usage??? And is that normal?