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Word uses up to 130 Mb RAM
When I launch Word the memory usage quickly climbs to 130 + MB RAM. I have
found through much testing that this is related to the DHCP Client. When I go into administrative tools and services and turn the service off Word acts normal. This is only a problem with Word. It does not happen to any other Office products. This is happening to several users on the network but not all users. The users don't have everything in common (same programs or hardware). Have tried spyware removal tools (ad-aware, spybot, hijackthis), have done virus scans (system clean), have done defrag, have done an Office repair and none of these have helped. Have copied the dhcp registry entries from a good machine and imported them to a machine with the problem (no luck). Have used Microsoft's tool to fix tcp/ip stack. Have deleted and re-crated Normal.dot. The only thing that has worked is to recreate the user profile. I just want to understand why this is happening to begin with and if there is any other solution. |
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G'Day,
I am not sure why you regard this as a problem, or even that you have a problem - other than Hypervigilance and Anxiety. When I read your situation, I became curious about Word's memory usage on my Desktop PC. I checked it and found it levelled off at about 139MB with a large document open, and it undergoes quite large swings around this figure while editing. This of course is NOT RAM but Virtual Memory - of which my PC has about 2000MB (provided by Windows Xp). Since t'was ever thus (without issue) I shall now quit being curious about matters that are of little importance (unless a REAL problem develops), and get back to Work! -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "cmdicey" wrote in message ... When I launch Word the memory usage quickly climbs to 130 + MB RAM. I have found through much testing that this is related to the DHCP Client. When I go into administrative tools and services and turn the service off Word acts normal. This is only a problem with Word. It does not happen to any other Office products. This is happening to several users on the network but not all users. The users don't have everything in common (same programs or hardware). Have tried spyware removal tools (ad-aware, spybot, hijackthis), have done virus scans (system clean), have done defrag, have done an Office repair and none of these have helped. Have copied the dhcp registry entries from a good machine and imported them to a machine with the problem (no luck). Have used Microsoft's tool to fix tcp/ip stack. Have deleted and re-crated Normal.dot. The only thing that has worked is to recreate the user profile. I just want to understand why this is happening to begin with and if there is any other solution. |
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Thank you for your sarcastic remarks. It was very helpful. Maybe I didn't
explain the situation well enough. The RAM will top out at about 195MB and it will take 5 -10 minutes to open a document. Thanks again for souring my first experience on this site which I will never use again. "Pat Garard" wrote: G'Day, I am not sure why you regard this as a problem, or even that you have a problem - other than Hypervigilance and Anxiety. When I read your situation, I became curious about Word's memory usage on my Desktop PC. I checked it and found it levelled off at about 139MB with a large document open, and it undergoes quite large swings around this figure while editing. This of course is NOT RAM but Virtual Memory - of which my PC has about 2000MB (provided by Windows Xp). Since t'was ever thus (without issue) I shall now quit being curious about matters that are of little importance (unless a REAL problem develops), and get back to Work! -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "cmdicey" wrote in message ... When I launch Word the memory usage quickly climbs to 130 + MB RAM. I have found through much testing that this is related to the DHCP Client. When I go into administrative tools and services and turn the service off Word acts normal. This is only a problem with Word. It does not happen to any other Office products. This is happening to several users on the network but not all users. The users don't have everything in common (same programs or hardware). Have tried spyware removal tools (ad-aware, spybot, hijackthis), have done virus scans (system clean), have done defrag, have done an Office repair and none of these have helped. Have copied the dhcp registry entries from a good machine and imported them to a machine with the problem (no luck). Have used Microsoft's tool to fix tcp/ip stack. Have deleted and re-crated Normal.dot. The only thing that has worked is to recreate the user profile. I just want to understand why this is happening to begin with and if there is any other solution. |
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G'Day again,
Do you not think it would have been wiser (and fairer) to have described the problem you faced, rather than the one you conceived? It is not that you 'didn't explain the situation well enough' - you did not explain it at all!!! You do not seem to have any Word problems - only a network problem that may well have something to do with the DHCP Server (probably not the client). Finally, if you search these newsgroups for my name, you will find two things: I don't mince words - especially when I have wasted my time. I go out of my way the Help, and usually offer good quality advice. My advice to you: Define the real problem, then post in the appropriate newsgroup (Network) In terms of your perceived problem - relax, meditate and be cool! -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "cmdicey" wrote in message ... Thank you for your sarcastic remarks. It was very helpful. Maybe I didn't explain the situation well enough. The RAM will top out at about 195MB and it will take 5 -10 minutes to open a document. Thanks again for souring my first experience on this site which I will never use again. "Pat Garard" wrote: G'Day, I am not sure why you regard this as a problem, or even that you have a problem - other than Hypervigilance and Anxiety. When I read your situation, I became curious about Word's memory usage on my Desktop PC. I checked it and found it levelled off at about 139MB with a large document open, and it undergoes quite large swings around this figure while editing. This of course is NOT RAM but Virtual Memory - of which my PC has about 2000MB (provided by Windows Xp). Since t'was ever thus (without issue) I shall now quit being curious about matters that are of little importance (unless a REAL problem develops), and get back to Work! -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "cmdicey" wrote in message ... When I launch Word the memory usage quickly climbs to 130 + MB RAM. I have found through much testing that this is related to the DHCP Client. When I go into administrative tools and services and turn the service off Word acts normal. This is only a problem with Word. It does not happen to any other Office products. This is happening to several users on the network but not all users. The users don't have everything in common (same programs or hardware). Have tried spyware removal tools (ad-aware, spybot, hijackthis), have done virus scans (system clean), have done defrag, have done an Office repair and none of these have helped. Have copied the dhcp registry entries from a good machine and imported them to a machine with the problem (no luck). Have used Microsoft's tool to fix tcp/ip stack. Have deleted and re-crated Normal.dot. The only thing that has worked is to recreate the user profile. I just want to understand why this is happening to begin with and if there is any other solution. |
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You have probably wasted your breath, since "cmdicey" has already told us
he/she will not be visiting us again. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Pat Garard" apgarardATbigpondDOTnetDOTau wrote in message ... G'Day again, Do you not think it would have been wiser (and fairer) to have described the problem you faced, rather than the one you conceived? It is not that you 'didn't explain the situation well enough' - you did not explain it at all!!! You do not seem to have any Word problems - only a network problem that may well have something to do with the DHCP Server (probably not the client). Finally, if you search these newsgroups for my name, you will find two things: I don't mince words - especially when I have wasted my time. I go out of my way the Help, and usually offer good quality advice. My advice to you: Define the real problem, then post in the appropriate newsgroup (Network) In terms of your perceived problem - relax, meditate and be cool! -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "cmdicey" wrote in message ... Thank you for your sarcastic remarks. It was very helpful. Maybe I didn't explain the situation well enough. The RAM will top out at about 195MB and it will take 5 -10 minutes to open a document. Thanks again for souring my first experience on this site which I will never use again. "Pat Garard" wrote: G'Day, I am not sure why you regard this as a problem, or even that you have a problem - other than Hypervigilance and Anxiety. When I read your situation, I became curious about Word's memory usage on my Desktop PC. I checked it and found it levelled off at about 139MB with a large document open, and it undergoes quite large swings around this figure while editing. This of course is NOT RAM but Virtual Memory - of which my PC has about 2000MB (provided by Windows Xp). Since t'was ever thus (without issue) I shall now quit being curious about matters that are of little importance (unless a REAL problem develops), and get back to Work! -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "cmdicey" wrote in message ... When I launch Word the memory usage quickly climbs to 130 + MB RAM. I have found through much testing that this is related to the DHCP Client. When I go into administrative tools and services and turn the service off Word acts normal. This is only a problem with Word. It does not happen to any other Office products. This is happening to several users on the network but not all users. The users don't have everything in common (same programs or hardware). Have tried spyware removal tools (ad-aware, spybot, hijackthis), have done virus scans (system clean), have done defrag, have done an Office repair and none of these have helped. Have copied the dhcp registry entries from a good machine and imported them to a machine with the problem (no luck). Have used Microsoft's tool to fix tcp/ip stack. Have deleted and re-crated Normal.dot. The only thing that has worked is to recreate the user profile. I just want to understand why this is happening to begin with and if there is any other solution. |
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Hi Suzanne,
Ok! You're probably right, but others may read and learn... .... as I learn! -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You have probably wasted your breath, since "cmdicey" has already told us he/she will not be visiting us again. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Pat Garard" apgarardATbigpondDOTnetDOTau wrote in message ... G'Day again, Do you not think it would have been wiser (and fairer) to have described the problem you faced, rather than the one you conceived? It is not that you 'didn't explain the situation well enough' - you did not explain it at all!!! You do not seem to have any Word problems - only a network problem that may well have something to do with the DHCP Server (probably not the client). Finally, if you search these newsgroups for my name, you will find two things: I don't mince words - especially when I have wasted my time. I go out of my way the Help, and usually offer good quality advice. My advice to you: Define the real problem, then post in the appropriate newsgroup (Network) In terms of your perceived problem - relax, meditate and be cool! -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "cmdicey" wrote in message ... Thank you for your sarcastic remarks. It was very helpful. Maybe I didn't explain the situation well enough. The RAM will top out at about 195MB and it will take 5 -10 minutes to open a document. Thanks again for souring my first experience on this site which I will never use again. "Pat Garard" wrote: G'Day, I am not sure why you regard this as a problem, or even that you have a problem - other than Hypervigilance and Anxiety. When I read your situation, I became curious about Word's memory usage on my Desktop PC. I checked it and found it levelled off at about 139MB with a large document open, and it undergoes quite large swings around this figure while editing. This of course is NOT RAM but Virtual Memory - of which my PC has about 2000MB (provided by Windows Xp). Since t'was ever thus (without issue) I shall now quit being curious about matters that are of little importance (unless a REAL problem develops), and get back to Work! -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "cmdicey" wrote in message ... When I launch Word the memory usage quickly climbs to 130 + MB RAM. I have found through much testing that this is related to the DHCP Client. When I go into administrative tools and services and turn the service off Word acts normal. This is only a problem with Word. It does not happen to any other Office products. This is happening to several users on the network but not all users. The users don't have everything in common (same programs or hardware). Have tried spyware removal tools (ad-aware, spybot, hijackthis), have done virus scans (system clean), have done defrag, have done an Office repair and none of these have helped. Have copied the dhcp registry entries from a good machine and imported them to a machine with the problem (no luck). Have used Microsoft's tool to fix tcp/ip stack. Have deleted and re-crated Normal.dot. The only thing that has worked is to recreate the user profile. I just want to understand why this is happening to begin with and if there is any other solution. |
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See:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=280821#appliesto -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "cmdicey" wrote in message ... Thank you for your sarcastic remarks. It was very helpful. Maybe I didn't explain the situation well enough. The RAM will top out at about 195MB and it will take 5 -10 minutes to open a document. Thanks again for souring my first experience on this site which I will never use again. "Pat Garard" wrote: G'Day, I am not sure why you regard this as a problem, or even that you have a problem - other than Hypervigilance and Anxiety. When I read your situation, I became curious about Word's memory usage on my Desktop PC. I checked it and found it levelled off at about 139MB with a large document open, and it undergoes quite large swings around this figure while editing. This of course is NOT RAM but Virtual Memory - of which my PC has about 2000MB (provided by Windows Xp). Since t'was ever thus (without issue) I shall now quit being curious about matters that are of little importance (unless a REAL problem develops), and get back to Work! -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "cmdicey" wrote in message ... When I launch Word the memory usage quickly climbs to 130 + MB RAM. I have found through much testing that this is related to the DHCP Client. When I go into administrative tools and services and turn the service off Word acts normal. This is only a problem with Word. It does not happen to any other Office products. This is happening to several users on the network but not all users. The users don't have everything in common (same programs or hardware). Have tried spyware removal tools (ad-aware, spybot, hijackthis), have done virus scans (system clean), have done defrag, have done an Office repair and none of these have helped. Have copied the dhcp registry entries from a good machine and imported them to a machine with the problem (no luck). Have used Microsoft's tool to fix tcp/ip stack. Have deleted and re-crated Normal.dot. The only thing that has worked is to recreate the user profile. I just want to understand why this is happening to begin with and if there is any other solution. |
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