iexplore.exe mem usage high

My desktop computer has 3.25 GB of ram. I am getting out of memory errors.
Task Manager processes show two instances of iexplore.exe: one @ 284,684 k
and one @ 189,924 k. Only 1 instance of IE 7 with 2 tabs running. Is it ok
to end these processes to free the memory? I want to avoid a reboot. What
is causing this? My computer is up to date with updates.
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Thanks.
Sammie SBS 2003, OFFICE 2003, XP-PRO-SP3, IE7

"Sammie" <Sammie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:03E223A3-D148-4B05-8346-07629C1E97E8@microsoft.com...
> My desktop computer has 3.25 GB of ram. I am getting out of memory
> errors.
> Task Manager processes show two instances of iexplore.exe: one @ 284,684 k
> and one @ 189,924 k. Only 1 instance of IE 7 with 2 tabs running. Is it
> ok
> to end these processes to free the memory? I want to avoid a reboot.
> What
> is causing this? My computer is up to date with updates.

Does it still do this in no-add ons mode? It sounds like you have a
misbehaving add-on that isn't releasing memory.

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Dan

"Sammie" <Sammie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:03E223A3-D148-4B05-8346-07629C1E97E8@microsoft.com...
> My desktop computer has 3.25 GB of ram. I am getting out of memory errors.


Under what circumstances? Often such messages are bogus,
being just the only error message which can be issued in the
unexpected state that a program finds itself in. Another equally
misleading cause of this message is that a caller may have
corrupted the stack causing invalid parameters to be used
that if unchecked actually can't be satisfied by the available
resources; so in that case the message would be valid but
not a significant sign of a resource shortage.

Also, it may help to be more explicit about your symptom description
because another interpretation might be that you are just seeing a
message about your page file size being increased.


> Task Manager processes show two instances of iexplore.exe: one @ 284,684 k
> and one @ 189,924 k. Only 1 instance of IE 7 with 2 tabs running. Is it ok
> to end these processes to free the memory?


Yes but are you now telling us that you can't see an IE window to close
instead? That would be a more significant problem symptom IMO.


> I want to avoid a reboot. What
> is causing this? My computer is up to date with updates.
> --
> Thanks.
> Sammie SBS 2003, OFFICE 2003, XP-PRO-SP3, IE7


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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