PA Bear,

I got back from a road trip and have been able to focus back on this.

RIES didn't solve the difficulty about IE7's memory issues either.

I took the advice of Tony Schreiner's article, in the third blog address,
and increased the desktop heap space from 3072 to 4096. This gave me more
working room and allows me to open more windows.

All in all, IE7 still stops at a 'brick wall' when it is full and doesn't
allow any other applications to run, or switch between apps, or anything else
unless some tabs are closed. Other software has slowed the machine or caused
more pagefile access, but not prevent other processes from starting or
working.

For now, the increased heap space has given me a useful work-around. The
reason that IE7 stalls everything still stays hidden.

Thanks for your advice and for helping me find a useful maneuver to fit my
needs.
--
ed


"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

> Robert Aldwinckle wrote:
> > (cross-post added to XP Perf & Maint)
> > "ed9213" <ed9213@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:0B752957-2AB6-4427-B8D3-5495C1649B75@microsoft.com...
> >> I've been plagued by IE7 using up my computer's memory and stopping
> >> anything else from running until I close down a tab or two. I do a lot
> >> of
> >> research and sometimes have 20+ tabs active at a time.
> >>
> >> I have an XP Pro SP2 Dell Dimension 8400. It had 512M of RAM. I thought
> >> adding RAM would overcome the issue. I added 2GB of additional RAM. The
> >> same situation existed. I changed the Page File Setting to a static
> >> 3072M
> >> - 4096M.
> >>
> >> That gives me a total of over 6GB of memory, but IE7 still chokes at
> >> about
> >> 20 tabs.
> > Vista users have been complaining about this symptom more recently. ; )
> > Here is an excerpt from a previous post (written for a Vista user.)
> >
> > <excerpt>
> > This could be an issue with heap space. Here are two articles about that
> >
> > http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/ar...-overview.aspx
> >
> > http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/ar...ap-part-2.aspx
> <snip>
>
> Following Robert's lead...
>
> Desktop Heap Limitations
> http://blogs.msdn.com/tonyschr/archi...mitations.aspx
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
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