Fixing my dad's laptop as it's going slow. Reason: 512MB ram only (XP) but okay, it's around 300 MB idle now (cleaning up start programs etc), so still fast enough.
When I start up IE7 though (the browser he always uses), the iexplorer.exe process uses 97MB idle. This is just google opened in one window. When I browse it jumps to 110MB, opening another tab -> 127MB and then I've been surfing for 10s.
(Even FF2.0 which is so called "memory eating" only uses 68MB on my computer with 2 windows and 6 tabs open.)
So in no time the memory exceeds the amount of memory, causing the laptop to start disk-writing and slowing down.
Anyone knows a fix for this? I googled a while, tried the no add-ons. It opens on 25MB then on the about:no-addons page, but when I browse to google, again 97MB.
I installed FF3 beta5 on it now, (best memory browser currently available) and that uses less than 15MB on two tabs.
Problem is that my dad is used to IE and I think a few sites he uses for work are ie-only based, and probably still gonna use that more than FF. (gonna try telling him though) so trying to find a fix anyway.
Installing SP3 in the hope that fixes it, but if anyone has a better idea?
(no: install FF or Opera please, I have it installed but it would be nice to have a normal functioning IE without having to reformat.)
When I start up IE7 though (the browser he always uses), the iexplorer.exe process uses 97MB idle. This is just google opened in one window. When I browse it jumps to 110MB, opening another tab -> 127MB and then I've been surfing for 10s.
(Even FF2.0 which is so called "memory eating" only uses 68MB on my computer with 2 windows and 6 tabs open.)
So in no time the memory exceeds the amount of memory, causing the laptop to start disk-writing and slowing down.
Anyone knows a fix for this? I googled a while, tried the no add-ons. It opens on 25MB then on the about:no-addons page, but when I browse to google, again 97MB.
I installed FF3 beta5 on it now, (best memory browser currently available) and that uses less than 15MB on two tabs.
Problem is that my dad is used to IE and I think a few sites he uses for work are ie-only based, and probably still gonna use that more than FF. (gonna try telling him though) so trying to find a fix anyway.
Installing SP3 in the hope that fixes it, but if anyone has a better idea?
(no: install FF or Opera please, I have it installed but it would be nice to have a normal functioning IE without having to reformat.)