iexplorer using tons of ram until it freezes and hardware quits working

secsee · 08-29-2009, 07:27 AM

Mostly when I'm on facebook does this occur. I have dial-up still (yes I know) but this is a new and sudden problem. I recieve a message saying windows is increasing virtual memory. when I open task manager, it has 2 iexplorer.exe running (microsoft says this is normal for IE8 to run two of these process?) but one always uses way more ram and virtual memory than the other. I went and manually increased my pagefile and then windows will demand increasing it even more. Its at 2606M right now but if I get on facebook it will insist on increasing it even more. now lately my mouse and keyboard will stop working for quite awhile, days even, not sure what changes that they start to work again. I have ran all kinds of virus , spyware, all that good stuff...nothing. I even completely reset IE8.

08-29-2009, 07:27 AM	#1 (permalink)
secsee Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: ok Posts: 7 OS: windows xp pro sp3 My System	iexplorer using tons of ram until it freezes and hardware quits working Mostly when I'm on facebook does this occur. I have dial-up still (yes I know) but this is a new and sudden problem. I recieve a message saying windows is increasing virtual memory. when I open task manager, it has 2 iexplorer.exe running (microsoft says this is normal for IE8 to run two of these process?) but one always uses way more ram and virtual memory than the other. I went and manually increased my pagefile and then windows will demand increasing it even more. Its at 2606M right now but if I get on facebook it will insist on increasing it even more. now lately my mouse and keyboard will stop working for quite awhile, days even, not sure what changes that they start to work again. I have ran all kinds of virus , spyware, all that good stuff...nothing. I even completely reset IE8.