IE 5.5 and low memmory

[Chrissirhc]

Why when on the internet for a while do the IE windows start being inactive and then you can't click on them minimize or close them. Then the system runs low on memmory. I have 256 mb memmory how can I be running low on memmory? memmory leak?. How do I fix it


Cheers in advance

Chris

 

[syangloo]

Sound like the memory problem, are u just add in the new RAM?? Or may be is too many program running at the back end and open too many peogram at the same time???

Please give us more detail for u system and situation when the problem appear.

Regards
Syangloo

 

[Chrissirhc]

I've had the problem for ages now. Many other people I know have problems when connecting to the internet for a long while.

I had the problem when I had memmory 128 and I upgraded about a few months ago.

I've got Asus A7V 133 bios 1.4D just upgraded to 1.7 but don't know if that will make a difference.

I do have lots of IE windows open when I get this problem. Maybe windows has some sort of stack stace and it lose it when I open too many. Situation appears when I've been on the internet for over an hour going onto to many web pages.

Cheers.

Chris

 

[mrfilez]

Hello Chris,

To be honest, both Netscape Navigator and IE are Memory hogs. I would strongly suggest that every hour or so, if you are doing a lot of surfing on the net, that you clear your Temporary Internet files. I would also try to keep your Temp folder as clean as possible. I only have 96MB PC100 memory. I have the problem also. This is just an evil that has to be lived with until they come out with a better system.
Hope this gives you a little information, I know it does not help a whole lot.

Thanks,
Don

 

[AidanEnos]

How much hard drive space do you have available on your desginated swap drive?

Start
Control Panels
System
Performance
Virtual Memory

Your virtual memory or swap space will default to the free space on the drive you've installed windows on (normally c:\). If c:\ is almost full, i.e. less than 200MB free, then you need to:

delete/move some files to a drive with more space
change the drive your computer uses for virtual memory
reboot in safe mode and defrag and check for errors (make sure you enable logging)

Let me know )

AidanEnos

 

[mrfilez]

Well, personally, I have a 400MB partition setup just for the swap file. This is the way I setup all my computers. Windows seems to run much better this way. IE and Netscape are just memory hogs.

Thanks,
Don

 

[Chrissirhc]

My c drive has got 6GB free.

I haven't tried defrag in safe mode, but did it recently in the normal mode.

Is this a tried and tested solution?


Cheers

Chris

 

[Comtech]

I'll bet it's not an IE or Netscape problem, but a lousy winmodem problem... Cheers,
Jim
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[Chrissirhc]

That seems feasible but is it fixable

 

[Comtech]

Yes, and no.
What kind of modem is it?
What chipset is on it?
Brand name, internal, external, USB? Cheers,
Jim
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[Chrissirhc]

USB modem modulah technology.
Its version 2.7 of the drivers.

 

[Comtech]

Well...USB modems are not known for their stability or performance.
What kind of USB support do you have? What motherboard, what BIOS version?
The nature of the beast is USB requires resources (RAM for data buffer), and this will never empty out, until you do a restart. I know of no way around it. Cheers,
Jim
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[Chrissirhc]

I've got a asus a7v with bios 1007. Got three working USB ports on the motherboard

 

[hotfusion]

If it turns out to be a memory problem,which it possibly isn't,there is a freeware program I use occasionally to free up allocated RAM,useful if you have plenty of RAM to start with as in your case.It can be set to free up a chosen amount of RAM if it goes below a settable threshold.I can't remember where I found it now but a search for 'Rambooster'should turn it up.Andy.