- Applications running on XP with SP3
- Posted by Ed on June 20th, 2008
Several applications including all of the Office 2003 suite do not leave
memory when shutdown. Some applications will not restart until they are
killed in the task manager.
Firefox used to do it, but the latest version has stopped the problem.
However Corel Paint Shop Pro X2 does, as does Word, Excel, Outlook, and
PowerPoint. IE has never done this in any of its iterations.
This also happened in XP SP2 so upgrading to SP3 did not help.
If I start and shutdown one of the offending apps a number of times all of
the copies remain in memory and really slow things down.
This happened after a series of upgrades were carried out automatically, but
i cannot determine which sequence of upgrades started the problem.
Help I am going nuts trying to find this problem, it is not just to fix it
now, this is a challenge and I will beat it! I hope....
- Posted by S.Sengupta on June 20th, 2008
More informations needed regarding your hardware specifications.Moreover
this news gr. is meant for Media Center,It will be better if you ask the
same to the Office newsgr.
regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]
Ed wrote:
- Posted by Ed on June 20th, 2008
It's not just Office applications, it is multiple and various applications.
It seems almost like the process that recovers memory after an application
shutdown is not working. Perhaps a flag somewhere that shows the memory to
now be available is not being read. The trouble is I do not know enough about
the various processes or services to know which one to investigate. i was
hoping to get a pointer to the general area I whould be looking at.
Thanks for the info about the office newsgroup.
"S.Sengupta" wrote:
- Posted by JW on June 20th, 2008
The current Windows Operating Systems do not remove programs from memory
until the memory is needed by another application and needs to be
reassigned. By not removing them from memory they do not have to reloaded
them from disk if you start them back up again. Keeping programs in memory
cache does not slow anything down.
"Ed" <Ed@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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- Posted by Ed on June 20th, 2008
The problem is that some applications (notably Corel Paint Shop Pro X2) will
not restart while the other "version" is in memory. This also happens with
other Applications, and I have seen up to 8 copies of outlook and word in
memory simultaneously, and over 20 copies of Firefox in memory. This started
to happen after some updates, it was not always there. I suspect a service is
not running properly or is disabled, but I do not know which one.
Ed
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