We also found our installation of Microsoft Office had inserted a few browser add-ons that we didn't need, including "Groove Folder Synchronization" and "Office Document Cache Handler." If you don't use Office Groove or work with SharePoint Server then these can probably also be disabled (this saved us 1MB of RAM).Īnd of course you'll probably have plenty of additional add-ons and toolbars of your own.
Disable them and see if you notice any difference. These can help you log on to Messenger or manage multiple Windows Live accounts, but this comes at a price, chewing up more than 5MB of RAM on our test system. Microsoft may have added the Windows Live ID Sign-in Helper or Messenger Companion Helper to your add-ons list. If you've installed the DivX player, you may see a couple of DivX add-ons, "DivX Plus Web Player HTML5 " and "DivX HiQ." But if you only want to play DivX movies on your desktop then these can safely be disabled, saving you another 3MB or so. But if you don't, click it and select "Disable." This one step saved around 4MB of RAM on our test PC. The Skype Plug-In, for instance, is used to launch Skype from a web page when you click on someone's number. If you have lots of IE tabs and windows open at any one time then excess add-ons could be chewing up a great deal of valuable system resources. Click Tools > Manage Add-ons within IE, then, to see what's installed on your system.
But keep in mind that this overhead (and a little more) applies to every tab. Four tabs open at Google consumed around 118MB with the add-ons active, for instance, and only 54MB with our pruned configuration, a very useful 64MB saving.
Okay, it's true, 20MB these days isn't a great deal.
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