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Yes I did....
But that doesn't matter... A program will not use less/more total memory if you're harddisk is bigger or smaller... (and it doesn't matter if the memory is created virtually as a page-file or in real RAM)....

it really depends...... but right now 2.478

My Plus!:
Current memory use: 324 Kb
Private bytes (virtual memory): 908 Kb
Maximun usage: 2436 KB
But you have to count also the memory needed for the hook .DLLs
Anyway, Plus! doesn't take a lot of memory. (Messenger, for example, takes about 18Mb and noone complains )

Thanks for all your replies. I knew it didn't use much memory, but nice to have all your confirmations.

I'll prompt him again to see if he will install Plus, for my benefit if not his I do remember him saying he only really used to use Plus for the logging, but now MSN 6.x has it, he doesn't need Plus. Has anyone seen the size of the XMLs that MSN creates??!

the latest version of Plus! included some major changes to prevent it using as much memory. I can't code in C but It seems to me that all the main code is now in external DLLs and called from the main, 136KB, file.
MsgPlus is using 228KB on here atm with MSN 6.1 using an amazingly low 18404KB...
I seem to remember MsgPlus using around 8MB before these changes, btw

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Originally posted by MoRiA
I seem to remember MsgPlus using around 8MB before these changes,

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wow now that i see MSN Messenger is just taking 5.142kb (normally 15 up)

Yes MSN seems something of a memory hog, esp when compared to Plus. I'll make this known to my friend. The real hogs on my system are Firebird (I still love it!), and my firewall, which use circa 30Mb each!

I can't see Plus impacting on performance. It uses seemingly no processing power, and not much memory. I doubt startup times would dramatically increase after Plus is installed.

So thats another pat on the back for you Patchou!

msgplus.exe 700kb
msnmsgr.exe 16.552kb

(total ram 512mb)

mine varies from 2.9 to 200 kb
once the comp is restarted it uses more memory then in usual status

Right now Plus! is at 360K
MSN Messenger is at 1,908K