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Explorer.exe Is A Pain In The A**

post #1 of 6
8/17/06 at 1:40pm
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Why Is It That Explorer.exe Sometimes Uses Up 100 Percent Cpu?
I Always Have To End The Process And Start It Again.
Please Someone Give Me A Better Advice!
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post #2 of 6
8/17/06 at 1:55pm
i'm assuming you're referring to windows explorer. check out xplorer2. gives you an option of dual panes as well as the file tree and you can see/play multimedia w/i xplorer.
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post #3 of 6
8/17/06 at 2:07pm
I believe he's referring to the process explorer.exe, without which Windows cannot run correctly.

The reason it is probably running at 100% is either:

1. You have been infected with some kind of virus.

2. You have installed some really badly written program that is just hammering explorer.exe

3. You have some spyware/malware installed that is trying to do something against the computer and is also probably written very badly.

Regards,

zakaluka2.
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post #4 of 6
8/17/06 at 2:11pm
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So what can u if it is number 1 and 2?
thx
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post #5 of 6
8/17/06 at 2:29pm
Solutions:

1. Run an antivirus program. Some decent, free ones are: GriSoft AVG, Avira AntiVir.

2. Just uninstall the program. If you have crappy little programs like those for getting weather information, etc, get rid of those. 99% of the time, they are horribly written and are responsible for a large number of problems.

3. Install and run Spybot, Lavasoft Ad-aware and Hijack This. See if you can find any spyware/malware. Obviously, remove it if you can.

Regards,

zakaluka2.
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post #6 of 6
8/17/06 at 3:07pm
kill explorer.exe use task manager to start whatever progs you need...shell mode FTW!


**This is mostly meant as a joke. Probably need to do as stated above or start over from scratch with a clean OS install.
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