nsi memory leaks fixed yet?

I've installed IE11 and testing it now. After 7 days of uptime after IE10 uninstall my svchost.exe was at 22,968K. I'm wondering if there was something else that needed to be uninstalled but I guess I'll see how this goes.

Okay... So I figured out that WHEN I had 9 days stable, IE 10 was in fact still installed. Once I removed it from Add/Remove Windows Features in the control panel, is when the leak came back. Not sure why I did not make the connection earlier. Since then, my NSI issue remained, UNTIL I installed the standalone IE 11 installer, not the Windows Update one, as once IE 10 is removed, update no longer prompts to update to IE 11. Now, with IE 11 installed, and the most recent update for IE 11 (and all other Windows updates completed), my NSI usage is at the lowest in months.

Current usage: 3464 K, only 96 handles.

Before it was 9340 K, 178 handles on a normal basis, and ballooned upwards of 17,000 handles, and over 200,000 K of memory when the leak took hold.

Keep in mind, this is minimal up time so far, but first impressions after reboot, WAY lower initial NSI usage with IE 10 removed from the add/remove Windows features, and stand alone IE 11 installed and updated.

IF you are having this issue try:

1. Go to Control Panel > Programs and Features > Add Remove Windows Features
2. Remove the CHECK from IE 10, allow it to uninstall
3. Remove any updates for IE (any version) from your Windows Update history
4. REBOOT
5. Download IE 11 from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/internet-explorer/ie-11-worldwide-languages
6. Follow the install instructions, reboot as needed.
7. Find NSI process and monitor usage, POST BACK with results.

I will do the same, after longer up time.

Jasthrus

Hi all,

I can confirm that since uninstalling all version of IE, then installing IE11, I have not had the memory leaking problem since.  It's been about 2 weeks and the svchost (nsi) process has not creeped over 70MB.

I'd consider this resolved for me.

Thanks to all for the suggestions.

• Liam

I'm at 80 hours uptime and my svchost.exe is at 17, 108K. I apparently do still have a small memory leak after the IE10 uninstall. Now I'm not sure if I should install IE11 or I need to go through my last updates to find a problem. While it is certainly allot slower and less of an issue, it's still more than the 8.5MB it normally runs at.

Perhaps I'll just restart first and see what it does again. I'm just getting tired of this issue as it seems to be the only problem I have.

So, no idea why at this point... IE10 is completely removed from my system, NO other IE version installed, DID happen to do Windows updates, and NOW the damn leak is back. After just 4 hours of uptime, NSI's handles are out of control, and it is eating RAM.

At this point I am lost. 9 days of uptime, and no issues, do the Windows updates, reboot, and the leak is back. Is this related to Windows updates, the update system itself, WHAT?!

Come on MS, help us out here. There are SO many of us experiencing this, collect the information you need from us, help us troubleshoot this. There has been NO movement, or suggestions on this from MS at all.

Will keep digging...

Jasthrus