Fix Available for IE7 Memory Leaks on XP SP3

Sorry but this is nonsense. I have this problem on both my XP SP2 PCs, with IE7 (and maybe also IE6 before). The workaround above did not alleviate this, nor other suggestions I've seen such as disabling 3rd party extensions (or funny suggestion to minimize the window...)..

Search for "IE7 memory leak" or "hog" or "problems" and you will see *MANY* people complaining about this, and no solution posted. Run IE7 for a few hours and memory consumption (e.g. Mem Usage and VM Size columns in task m,anager) starts going up to 100s of MB, can get to GB in less than a day. Regardless if you had many tabs, what exactly you were doing, or even idle overnight etc. So I'm forced to kill my IE windows and restart them daily, very annoying for obvious reasons. In my desperation I even considered going to IE8 beta, but read that its memory consumption is much higher!

Now I did read that Firefox has similar problem (even in ver 3), though it might be a different problem. Maybe this has to do with Ajax or Flash or whatever. In any case, a solution is needed, Shame on MS for not doing anything!

I must agree with Shaul
try it yourself ,search any word. open the first 10 links in 10 tabs , and then close all the extra tab , if you follow the memory in the task maneger, you can see it yourself, ie7 don't let go.(if you use minimize it's clean only the mem but not the vm mem).
where is the garbage collector??
Please fix it, please

I too have been having this issue. Once again IE7 running in 64bit XP PRO SP2. You'd think that MS would have at least fixed this problem by now with the increased number of people having this very same problem. I have personnally seen the Mem Usage go well into the 2GB bracket before IE7 stops working all together. This memory leak is very annoying and makes it really difficult when you are working on web pages either for yourself or for business purposes.
I too have tried removing add-ons, uninstalling and re-installing IE7, even tried IE8 but that was a waste, tried running the 64bit version of IE7 but that just makes it worse plus theres not enough support in the 64bit enviroment under XP PRO.
its alittle annoying when you have to resort to using 2 different browsers in your everyday net workings. 32bit IE7 and firefox / 64bit IE7 and minefield.

I've had this issue with both a single and new dual-core PC ... It was time to get a new PC but I have this issue with the new PC and NO FIX has worked on either PC. Shame on Micro$oft for trying to get people to step up to Windows 7. Shame on Micro$oft!

It is July 2010 and guess what, we still have problem. My application keeps increasing memory and at one stage I get the famous error 'Out Of Memory Exception'


MS... wake up. Please provide solution.

It's 2012... There's still no fix. Ah well...

Regedit wouldnt let type alpha characters 0x0 in LoadIMM / Value data box... only numeric characters allowed 00 etc ?

Here is a description of what you have to deal with since there is no fix:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd361842(v=vs.85).aspx