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    Explorer.exe - 1.6GB RAM Used!!!

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Greg, Aug 22, 2008.

  1. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Wow...that was odd.

    I was doing a large copy/paste, and after all was said and done explorer.exe was using 1.6GB of my RAM and the computer was incredibly slow/buggy.

    Even after I cleaned out the clipboard.

    Anyone else noticed this one? Just out of curiosity...?
     
    Greg, Aug 22, 2008
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    rschauby Superfluously Redundant

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    Was this looking at the task manager?

    Was this a spike or was it consuming that much memory for a while?
     
    rschauby, Aug 22, 2008
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  3. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    It was from within the Task Manager, and it was like that for about the 10 minutes it took me to finish what I had to and reboot.
     
    Greg, Aug 22, 2008
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    No screenshot?
    :(

    Anyway, no, I've never seen that.
     
    swarmer, Aug 22, 2008
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  5. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Ah, sorry. I'll try to get another screen shot later. I know exactly how I caused it too.
     
    Greg, Aug 22, 2008
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    plasma. herpyderpy

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    wow, and you only have 2gb of ram... that must have lagged like hell

    blame vista
     
    plasma., Aug 22, 2008
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    qhn Notebook User

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    i m not sure that the OP is on Vista. It was not being mentioned anywhere in his post, for sure.

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Aug 22, 2008
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    niGht kiD .. beach boy ♫

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    How big is your file? Never had this problem before on Vista for me.
     
    niGht kiD, Aug 22, 2008
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    I don't think I can recall ever experiencing this either.
     
    Ennea, Aug 22, 2008
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  10. Lakjin

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    Did you ever fully get rid of that facebook virus? If no, that might be a cause of this?
     
    Lakjin, Aug 22, 2008
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  11. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    For one, that was on my desktop. Vista yes, but I have 3GB there. Still sucked though.

    Talk to Tim, he had the facebook virus. ;)
     
    Greg, Aug 22, 2008
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