hmm, well, I notice the CPU usage too, but my screen turns off properly, so I'm not sure that's related to this same issue. However, I still have the RAM issue with explorer restarting, I guess I'll just have to live with it for now, it's only an annoyance really, as all the task icons seem to come back after the restart. If you have any ideas, let me know.
Alright, you might be on the right track. I've uninstalled alot of the Power Toys that I installed from Microsoft (including an "Open Command Prompt Here" extension, a slide show generator, an alternative graphical Task Switch for alt+tab, and a color editor), I'm not sure which one might be causing the problem (my theory right now is the Task Switcher) but it seems even when using Newsleecher at 77MB of RAM, explorer seems to have settled at 38MB (which is actually what it was before l
Ok, now I can't use Media Center without it happening, so I think I'm going to have to give up on WindowBlinds. Sorry to say I've wasted 20 bucks. You're progress is impressive, but version 5 is still a bit too unstable.
Well, I've been up for about 24 hours or so without it happening, I'm explorer is up to about 45MB of RAM right now (still higher than normal) and I'm fairly sure that it's because I haven't used the newsleecher program (or any other program that uses alot of RAM at once). I'll keep monitoring to see what causes it and probably provide you with another tasklist log if I can catch explorer at the high RAM usage before it crashes.
Uh, sorry to say astyanax1, but I had already been using those prior to this... To Neil, yes it is only explorer, it will start out fine, around 25MB, then grow to 35, then 45, then it will stay there for a while, then sometimes I've seen it at 150MB! Explorer randomly will restart and/or borders and menus will stop drawing when this happens, or if I notice it before then, I have to do it manually to have borders and menus draw properly. I'm sending you the log now.</P
Well, it's not a driver issue. Sorry to say it happened again with 77.77 and nView disabled. I really need to get this figured out... or else I've wasted $20.
Yes, I do have nview enabled, but only for small things such as the menu extensions and preventing windows from opening offscreen and preventing spanning. I've just removed the 81.98 drivers, I was going to install 77.77, but I noticed that 77.79 is a Media Center driver, do you think that would be ok? Or should I try 77.77? EDIT: Well, for testing purposes I went with 77.77 and did not enable nView. I'll run it overnight and see if there's any difference.
Well, it doesn't happen without WB though. Also, the 8x.xx drivers are the only drivers that seem to be stable with Media Center. I'm gonna try reinstalling the Media Center drivers (81.98) and see if it does anything, but I still feel it's an issue with WB itself. I'd like to hear from stardock on this issue...
Norton 2006
Hi all, I recently bought WindowBlinds 5 and love it. My only problem is that overnight (or after a couple of hours) explorer starts to use up alot of RAM. I see it continually grow over time. When it reaches 150MB I start to lose boarders and menu painting. If I run a program that uses alot of RAM (such as Newsleecher and/or Azureus) it happens faster. I've tried adding those programs to the ignore list, but that seems to have little/no effect. I'm using a
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