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    IE eating lots of memory on Dell Lab

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by teddy bomber, Aug 25, 2006.

  1. teddy bomber

    teddy bomber Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just wondering if there was anything that can be done about this. I'm at a friends house and his IE on his dell lab' is eating up twice, to four times as much mem space than IE does on say, viewing the exact same page, at the exact same time.


    IE: Checking a high resolution wallpaper on the desktop takes up around 11k (it's a 1.2mb wallpaper), wheras the same image, (on just one single explorer browser opened) on the labtop takes up 17k-44k.

    He's scanned for viruses, found nothing. The only thing he can think of is his lab has a fresh install of IE7, and the desktop uses IE6.

    So i'm thinking it's IE7 related, but dunno for sure. If so, is IE7 worth keeping? Or should he wait for RC2, etc?
     
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    teddy bomber Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just wondering if there was anything that can be done about this. I'm at a friends house and his IE on his dell lab' is eating up twice, to four times as much mem space than IE does on say, viewing the exact same page, at the exact same time.


    IE: Checking a high resolution wallpaper on the desktop takes up around 11k (it's a 1.2mb wallpaper), wheras the same image, (on just one single explorer browser opened) on the labtop takes up 17k-44k.

    He's scanned for viruses, found nothing. The only thing he can think of is his lab has a fresh install of IE7, and the desktop uses IE6.

    So i'm thinking it's IE7 related, but dunno for sure. If so, is IE7 worth keeping? Or should he wait for RC2, etc?

    Comp: Dell Inspiron E1705
    Vid card: Nvidia GeForce GO 7900GS
     
    teddy bomber, Aug 25, 2006
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  3. inter8148

    inter8148 Notebook Geek

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    Firefox. It's much better.
     
    inter8148, Aug 25, 2006
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  4. drumfu

    drumfu super modfu

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    duplicate thread closed
     
    drumfu, Aug 25, 2006
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    huskyfan23 Notebook Evangelist

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    IE7 is still in beta form. Does anything more need to be said?
     
    huskyfan23, Aug 25, 2006
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  6. qsimpson

    qsimpson Notebook Evangelist

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    IE7 was released no longer in beta i thought?
     
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  7. LFC

    LFC Ex-NBR

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    No, it is still in beta. In fact, the latest build was just released

    The full version won't be released till the winter...as a "critical update" under windows update if what I read is right. Mirosoft wouldn't know security if it bit them.....
     
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  8. qsimpson

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    oh my bad thought it was released fully. firefox is where its at though ;)
     
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  9. robfactory

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    Opera is a very good browser. You might want to reduce your Temp Internet FilesFolder to 80mb, see i that helps.
     
    robfactory, Aug 25, 2006
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