explorer.exe uses too much RAM in windows 8

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phoenixsb5

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Hi everybody!

I am using windows 8 and Explorer.exe is using 300MB+ of my RAM, which i think is not normal. Can anybody help me with this?

thanks!
 
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You shouldn't be concerned about explorer.exe using 300MB of RAM when you have 8GB total. Have a look at available physical memory on your system. I would expect that this is over 4GB when running desktop applications, and over 1GB when running games. Unless available memory is getting low, you don't have a problem.
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dasulman

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actually that's pretty normal for internet browsers - consider the vast task of making the amount of connections needed to use the internet, load up entire webpages and stream videos. It's a big task.
I'm just wondering why you're using internet explorer and not google chrome.
 
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I actually mean the Windows Explorer.exe, I am mainly using Firefox...
 
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VincentP

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You shouldn't be concerned about explorer.exe using 300MB of RAM when you have 8GB total. Have a look at available physical memory on your system. I would expect that this is over 4GB when running desktop applications, and over 1GB when running games. Unless available memory is getting low, you don't have a problem.
 
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