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| Thread ID: 65598 | 2006-01-23 23:55:00 | explorer exe hogs cpu | drcspy (146) | Press F1 |
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| 423731 | 2006-01-23 23:55:00 | had this problem on my sysetm . It is only intermittent and what happens is suddenly everythign slows to a crawl...checking task manager shows explorer runnign at 50% or there abouts..... I've tried everything from checkign the hardware to running chkdsk /r, sfc /scannow, repair install and norton system works 'windoctor' and you name it.......cant seem to figure out why it's happening.......so I partitioned the drive and reinstalled windoze again. All good, however I've just had to look at a pc that the same things happening on . anyone got any ideas why this might be happening and what to do about it os's are winxp home ed sp2 |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 423732 | 2006-01-24 00:08:00 | You expect us to figure it out if YOU can't? I'd suspect some malware on anyone elses PC. What services are on, on this other PC with the same thing? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 423733 | 2006-01-24 00:14:00 | ouch lol as you know I'm a reasonably experineced tech but I dont know everything...........you can rule out malware on both my pc and this other one cause both I and the other guy are paranoid types lol........ services.....um......well not too sure didn't look actually damn i meant to..... |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 423734 | 2006-01-24 00:53:00 | You may want to check the default folder options for Explorer: "Automatically search for network folders" "Display file size information in folder tips" A default view of list is the fastest . If the default view is icon, and the folder has images, that could slow things down . If the default view is details, you may want to check details, "Choose details", *not* to include image dimensions, width, height, sample rate, . . . Note that Windows has an annoying feature where it won't show the check boxes to disable, unless there's one file that's an image type file . |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 423735 | 2006-01-24 18:57:00 | When I've come up against this it's been a malfing drive. Almost alwaya a CD with an error on it and sometimes when the drive was empty. When it does that, try doing nothing but ejecting your optical drives. |
apparition (3207) | ||
| 423736 | 2006-01-24 19:52:00 | hm.........weird....... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 423737 | 2006-01-24 21:16:00 | I had that problem. I found a good defrag clears it up well. Don't use windows defrag. Try and find one which optimises as well as defrags. Perfectdisk 7.0 worked well as was very quick. | joshjnz (7844) | ||
| 423738 | 2006-01-24 21:24:00 | Try running this program - Process Explorer (www.sysinternals.com) - and see if it can pinpoint down what Windows Explorer is up to when the CPU cycles go up. | Jen (38) | ||
| 423739 | 2006-01-25 00:35:00 | Its got to be something thats running thats using it . What app hog is on it? Apart from Windows itself thats is :yuck: . Memory leak maybe? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 423740 | 2006-01-25 01:02:00 | well i just dunno cause with my system it just happened all by itself.....and this other guys sysetm has just 'decided' to do this too without any alterations to anything seemingly........ | drcspy (146) | ||
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