Q: Not too sure about. Now Im stuck with Win98 and the max I can get about 15 simultaneous open, even with my DSL line connection 1500K. In the past, when I W2K Pro, I was about 30 or 40 IE windows open all at once on the taskbar and after that I lost count. Just curious because I wonder whether the more RAM you have in Win XP, you can also become more open IE windows at once, without a memory, or lock-up after a while (as I get now) 0.
Thanks
BTW, Im upgrading to WinXP Pro at about 3-4 weeks and will be about 512-1GB of RAM to get, so thats why I ask.
Re:jliechty,
he can also use NeCaptor, supports tabbed browsing with the IE engine.
I like Mozilla better though too…
Re:In a decent multithreaded app like IE there is only one copy of the code in memory. Each additional window only takes up enough memory to hold the data for that particular instance. Windows 98 is downright rotten at memory management compared to NT 5.x. You should be able to open more windows than you can keep track of under xp. It may slow but shouldn't crash.
Re:XP relenquishes memory used for filesystem caching when necessary, I highly doubt that's the cause of your performance problems.
Re:XP can generaly open as many IE windows you want. It also makes a big difference whether you open new widows from and lready open IE window or if you open IE in a new process which eats much more reasorces.
One problem to note is that although XP is stable, it can eay up ram like crazy. Just opening many windows and keeping them open can eat up my ram and slow the system to a crawl. As far as I know this is caused by XP taking up all the ram a system cache and not releasing it unlike 9x where cache could be limited, and no amount of ram has made safe from this little problem.
Re:There also seems to be a limit for IE, probably because of the sharing of components. If you hold down ctrl+n in IE after a while the new IE windows will be missing menus, buttons, etc and just won't work.
Re:And this, my friends, is why you use Mozilla with tabbed browsing. Two or three Mozilla windows with 10 to 15 tabs each are much easier to handle than 45 IE window buttons in your taskbar.
But, to answer your question, you can start basically as many IE windows as you want, up to the limits of your RAM and pagefile, or the 2GB limit on virtual memory for each process that is imposed by the x86-32 architecture, whichever is smaller. 
Re:Originally posted by: guy
You can open up as many as you want as long as you have enough memory. One question though, why would you have so many open at once?
for all the popups on the pr0n sites he has open
Re:Well I ask as, to have as many IE windows open as possible makes it easier to switch back and forth betwen sites, or diffrent things Im reading. Like in the AT forums here, I might open up a few threads in the Hot Deals at the same time in the main catagory, then read after each thread after that.
Re:You can open up as many as you want as long as you have enough memory. One question though, why would you have so many open at once?
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