explorer and msn are balloning.

Brian Wetzstein · Post by **Brian Wetzstein** » 22 Jul 2004 10:27 am

hello everyone.
I use an HP computer running XP home.
lately, while online my explorer.exe and my msn.exe will expand so much that performance suffers and I have to restart. My msn.exe will grow to over 200,000 K of memory usage on my task manager. I regularly clean my temp files as well as run adaware and spybot. everything comes up clean.
any ideas?
thanks,
brian
balloon<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Brian Wetzstein on 22 July 2004 at 11:34 AM.]</p></FONT>

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 22 Jul 2004 10:34 am

What does msn.exe do?

Brian Wetzstein · Post by **Brian Wetzstein** » 22 Jul 2004 11:10 am

msn in my internet service provider and so it is my internet program.
when I first open the program (msn) it is in the 15,000 to 35,000 K range and it grows from there.
220,000 K as we speak...
thanks.
brian

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 22 Jul 2004 1:24 pm

It sounds like somebody is loading a bunch of "cookies" onto your computer while you are online. Do you have a blocker on your computer?
Erv

Brian Wetzstein · Post by **Brian Wetzstein** » 22 Jul 2004 2:15 pm

I don't think it is cookies because I clean them regularly and there are never any cookies for pages I do not visit.
I have a firewall up and norton antivirus running...
hopefully we can get to the bottom of this...
thanks again
brian

Brian Wetzstein · Post by **Brian Wetzstein** » 23 Jul 2004 9:54 am

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 23 Jul 2004 10:05 am

Msn.exe is Microsloth's way of bloating the Internet experience even more. If there is any way of disabling it, do it. You should be able to access everything on the Internet without MSN getting involved and in the way.

Ron Page · Post by **Ron Page** » 23 Jul 2004 10:36 am

I think Jim is suggesting that you simply configure your browser and e-mail utility, e.g. Outlook Express, to access your internet service directly. I guess MSN is similar to AOL's wrapper.

With the browser you can set the privacy to maximum which will block all cookies. That will let you test and see if that's the problem. I think cookies are written to the hard drive and I didn't think they'd swell up your memory usage.

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