# MP3Tag not releasing from memory.
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-not-releasing-from-memory/6518
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 25, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-not-releasing-from-memory/6518 "2008-03-25T19:01:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Nonreality](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Nonreality)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-not-releasing-from-memory/6518/1 "2008-03-25T19:01:50Z")
I found while trying to reinstall MP3tag that I had 4 instances of it in memory. All ranging from 10k to 15k. I ended all of the processes and reopened MP3tag and closed it. Everyone stayed in memory for hours. Never ended. I then checked my desktop thinking it might be a problem with my laptop only but found the same problem. I'm using XP on both with version 2.4 of MP3tag. Is there a fix for this that I don't know about? If not this probably belonged in the bug report.
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### Author:  [@Nonreality](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Nonreality)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-not-releasing-from-memory/6518/2 "2008-03-25T19:25:56Z")
By the way I really like MP3tag and have been telling everyone about it. Thank you very much.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-not-releasing-from-memory/6518/3 "2008-03-25T22:27:50Z")
Do you have a on-screen magnifier or another accessibility-related application running while experiencing this issue?
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### Author:  [@Nonreality](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Nonreality)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2008, 5:09am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-not-releasing-from-memory/6518/4 "2008-03-26T05:09:01Z")
No not on either computer.
I just checked again on my laptop, I shut down MP3tag 20 minutes ago and still have it running in memory using 29322k. Really strange.
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### Author:  [@Nonreality](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Nonreality)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-not-releasing-from-memory/6518/5 "2008-04-05T20:15:56Z")
To update you, I now believe it is some program on my computers that is causing some programs not to end the processes when they exit. I'm positive that it is **not** Mp3tag. Sorry if I've put you to any extra work but it took me a while to come to this conclusion. By the way, Mp3tag has really saved me a couple of times with tag problems. It's a great program and I'm referring everyone that has a tag editor need to try it and donate a bit if they like it. Thanks again.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2008, 5:27am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-not-releasing-from-memory/6518/6 "2008-04-06T05:27:17Z")
Thanks for the follow-up! Glad that you found the cause of the problem. Can you tell me which program was causing the issue?
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-not-releasing-from-memory/6518/7 "2026-02-09T12:20:51Z")