Task Manager Question

JLV2k5

JLV2k5

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When my computer is idoling and I open the Task Manager to look at how much memory each Process is taking up, I see that explorer.exe is taking up the most a 85,816 K . Why is this here, this isn't internet explorer is it? When I run Firefox (which is my primary web browser) it is under the processes too.

Can someone tell me what this is? Thanks.
 
Explorer.exe controls you're desktop, taskbar and start menu. iexplorer.exe is Internet Explorer.
 
The explorer.exe file is the main executable for Windows. If you end that Windows will stall instantly. All of the other processes then surrund themselves around that.
 
If you end the process. The start menu will close. Start it again and it will use less memory.

Go > Applications Tab > New Task > Type in explorer.exe and it will show it back up, this time it won't use as much memory.

:D
 
Thanks, i will not be ending that!

I tried the thing you said , it took me to my My Docs folder
 
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That's because it was forced to reload your user profile abruptly. Whenever you manually end the main file and have to force a restart you fail to see Windows shutdown properly. Don't be surprised to see the F8 menu appear at times asking for starting Windows normally, last known configuration that worked, safe mode, etc. when doing that.
 
is my explorer.exe running at an extremely large amount of mem? I dont think it should be this high, if i can lower it i will.
 
I would look at the items seen in the startup group found in the msconfig to see what is keeping the explorer.exe busy. On Vista here I see about 11,866K.
 
I have a few extras on like a shareware and the tuner card set to startup for ready access. If I were to cut down things like antivirus and antispyware along with those I would probably be down to video and sound only at about 7000K
 
Mine's using 5,000K at idle in Vista Business 32. I have Firefox and NOD32 running but they're each using their own memory, 30,000K and 1,500 respectively. svchost is using the most, about 50,000K.

I have two gigs of RAM. I'm pretty sure if you have more it'll spread it around, but 80,000K seems high.

I guess it's worth mentioning that I have Aero, along with all the fade out and whatever effects turned off.
 
I have you topped seeing 51,532K for the svchost.exe and 5892K for the explorer.exe. That's with both Apple's Safari 3.1 and FireFox 2.0 each seeing a window open. Then you add a few other things like the tv tuner card, Windows customer experience whatever, AVG of course, and an IE window maximizer.
 
I have multiple svchost.exe's going. The highest is 80,000 and for explorer is 38,000. How many svchost's you have?
 
Usually 5 or 6 are seen listed. The multiple instances are based the various lists of services that are started in each grouping. It offers better control and debugging while making it somewhat confusing for seeing what memory is actually in use.
 
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