Windows 10: Why does explorer.exe memory size keep growing on my idle laptop Windows 11?

I been having issues with my Dell XPS laptop running Windows 11 2H2. I leave it powered on usually with only a Chrome window open. Lately the task bar has become unresponsive after a day or two. By unresponsive I mean the start button and search window open up blank, no program icons, search fails to work. I can restart explorer.exe to recover so I started leaving a Task Manager and Resource Monitor window open to see what was happening to memory and found explorer.exe starts around 100MB after being restarted but over a couple days grows to 1GB. Seems to have started in the last mont

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Internet Explorer 11 Menu font size

Hello,

If you wish to adjust the font size of texts for Internet Explorer 11, you can perform the following steps:

• While Internet Explorer is open, press Alt on your keyboard for the
  menu bar to display.
• Click on View.
• Select Text size.
• From there, you can select your preferred text size.

If you want to make your desktop easier to see, you can follow the instructions on this link: (click here).

If you need further help regarding this concern, feel free to respond to this post.

 

Internet Explorer 11 Menu font size

Hi Larry,

Follow these steps to change the font size in IE11:

• Click Start menu or press Windows key on your keyboard.
• Type and click Control Panel.
• Click Appearance and Personalization and under Display, click
  Make text other items larger or smaller.
• Under Change only the text size, choose the Title bars
  in the drop-down menu and the desired font size on the drop-down menu beside it.

Let us know if the suggested steps helped.

 

Extremely high idle memory usage

Here is your first step:

You wrote: "... my pc idling at 80 - 90% memory ..."

1- Open Task Manager to the Processes tab and look at the Memory column.

2- What process(es) are using so much of your memory?