TSGL: Is IE7 a RAM gobbler?

Thu Feb 8 08:51:09 EST 2007

Hey, John:
That command only starts IE without add-ons. It does not change any
settings, so subsequently starting IE without that switch will start it
normally. There will be nothing to reset.
Michael

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Thanks, Michael. It is not on my PC at that address.
I assume that -exton will turn them on again..
John
Od/G

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Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 7:03 PM
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Hey, John:
I did leave out "Accessories", but with that in the chain it does appear on
my PC running XP Pro SP2, does start when clicked and display in the browser
window that it is running without add-ons, and does consume less RAM than
starting it normally. The correct path on my PC should have been:

Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Internet Explorer (No
Addons)

It is the last item on the system tools menu. I checked the properties and
apparently it is simply a shortcut to IE with a switch that starts is
without extensions, so you could type the command in the "Run" box and get
there that way. The command is:

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"  -extoff

(You could cut and paste the above line in the run box.

Michael

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Hi Michael,

Can you check that you really find IE in that chain you mention? Even
through Accessories I can't find IE in System Tools. Other listers with XP
Pro SP2?

Thanks.

John
Od/G

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From: "Michael Sweeden" <michaelsweeden at comcast.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:27 AM
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Timely enough, there is a blurb on page 92 of the latest PC World Magazine
warning about add-ons, and showing that using some of the add-ons reviewed
in the magazine can add, according to the chart, 20MB of RAM overhead to IE.
So apparently the web page, the running Active-X controls, and the add-ins
can all have an impact on RAM usage. It also mentions how to start up IE
with no add-ons: Start>All Programs>System Tools>Internet Explorer (No
Addons).

Michael

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Ed,

A few posts back Don mentioned that when he opened a tab with MSN search
it added a lot of memory usage to Maxithon (IE based). I suspect that IE
7 has a default search built in that is used if you enter a search term
in the address bar or elsewhere(?). I don't have IE 7 installed. Is it
possible that each time you open another tab, another copy of whatever
IE 7 needs for this "feature" is loaded? There might be a way to turn
off the default search behavior or at least change it to another engine
as a test.

HTH

H Davis

Ian R-P wrote:
> I did another test, http://www.whatismyip.org thats one simple line of
> coding which is whatever your ip is. IE7 registering at 13,000k without
cpu
> usage and as soon as i went to anything like google, yahoo, digg....any
big
> websites, it shoots right back up to 45,000k and cpu usage
>
> On 2/7/07, Don Penlington <deepend at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Ian wrote:
>>
>>> i just opened ie let it sit for 2 minutes on
>>> www.yahoo.com only that one tab open and it's sitting at 45,880k and
>>>
>> using
>>
>>> 35-45% cpu use.>>
>>>
>> And Russ wrote:
>>
>> <<I have IE7 open with 5 tabs (5 separate web pages). It is consuming
>> 4008k,
>>
>>> about 4 MB memory.>>
>>>
>> I don't know if this is any help, but I have Maxthon which is an IE-based
>> browser using IE6. (I've no wish to update to IE7 yet).
>>
>> When I open 4 web pages, Maxthon sits on about 4500-4800 Kb of memory and
>> zero CPU usage. If I open MSN search page as a 5th tab, memory usage
>> shoots
>> up to 12000-14000Kb and remains there. CPU usage remains on zero, after
>> jumping momentarily to 2%. When I close MSN, memory usage goes back to
>> 4500-4800Kb.
>>
>> All pages are static--ie fully loaded but lying idle.
>>
>> It seems therefore that the web site you have open may well affect the
>> amount of memory consumed quite drastically.
>>
>> I've often thought that some sites seem to need a lot more browser/CPU
>> grunt than others, but until sparked by curiosity after reading your
>> emails, I'd never before bothered to investigate. I've no idea why this
>> should be.
>> Ian--are you certain the pages are fully loaded? Perhaps you'd suspect it
>> with sites like Yahoo--who are probably using push technology which would
>> create a lot of unseen firewall activity. This, in turn, would be
>> communicating with the browser, thus it shows up as browser usage.
>> Maybe---I'm just guessing.
>>
>> If all sites, regardless of color or creed, are consuming inordinate
>> amounts of memory or CPU resources, then there are probably deeper
>> underlying issues on the individual computer.  (eg Nortons security
suites
>> would be a primary suspect).
>>
>> I don't know whether the various types of internet connection would have
>> any bearing on this subject.
>>
>> To answer Ed's original query, nothing I've read indicates anything
>> inherent in IE7 by which might be regarded as a resource hog.
>>
>> Don Penlington
>>
>>
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>> http://users.tpg.com.au/deepend/index1.html
>>
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