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Hello,

I have an app that opens Internet Explorer from a URL by calling ShellExecute.

When the app starts up, it runs at 804K in memory. When the button is clicked and the web page opens up, it jumps to 7,848K. When the web page is closed, my app still runs at almost 8,000K. Why is that? Can I somehow give the used virtual memory back to the machine?

Regards,
George

Hi George,

Just a hunch, but its probably due to some extra .dlls loading when you launch the web browser, if so maybe they are allocating this memory that is not properly being de-allocated?

You could try using ProcessExplorer or EzProcess to see what libraries are loading and unloading. Other than that... this is an interesting topic to me also.

Using EzProcess I can see it does exactly that. When Internet Explorer loads, a host of .dlls are loaded. When Internet Explorer closes, the .dlls remains loaded.

Thanks SeaFarer for the lead.

Not a problem...

While 98% of the population has been busy tranced in pop-culture, downloading porn, visiting adult web sites, pirating DVD movies, games, music CD's, texting, cell-phoning, talking smack, being selfish, and just plain pretending to be doing and being all sorts of things... while the planet burns...

I would like to think my time spent here and learning how to create win32 programs in assembly with the rest of you, as well as trying to do honest work in the real world, without the public tit, and without being a pirate unless I get screwed with, has been well worth it!

I guess time will tell?

No matter what... I have learned a thing or two also!

and if...

I ever get the opportunity that I really wanted... versus the handful of people that only wanted to get me into trouble... and they know who they are...

I have a real good idea of what I would like to do..... and how I want to go about it!

Many thanks back and cheers!

I just want to say thank you for all the knowledge I learn by reading your posts, SeaFarer, as well as to all posters on the winasm.net forums (and I apologize if my English is not perfect: not my native 'tongue').

Now, back to the fun.