Re: 100% cpu on "insert picture" in 2003

Disabling the startup items didn't make any difference.

There are three images files on my desktop. One is GIF, the other two
are small JPGs. I trashed the GIF and opened the JPGs in Photoshop and
did a Save As to "rebuild" them.

Based on http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/t1013872896 I did
this
>I was having problems with my icons and it was suggested that I reset my display
>resolution to a different setting, click apply....then reset it back to what it was
>before....and it worked!!! They are all back the way they should be. It seems the
>shelliconcache is recreated automatically when you change your color depth!!

I thought maybe the preview was problematic, which is NOT the icon, but
it made me think about it in a similar way.

I am wondering if it's an XP thing and NOT a PPT thing - in other
words, something about looking at those files in that directory is
weird.

For whatever reason I can now browse to OTHER folders and insert images
from there no problem. Just the not the desktop with these two quite
small JPGs. I deleted Thumbs.db from the desktop and that didn't work.

I created a "storage" (ie temp) folder on my desktop and began to move
various things into that folder so when I browsed to the desktop in the
Insert Picture dialog, I would be looking at less things. I wondered if
something else was screwing it up. I eventually put the two JPGs in
question into that directory, And this was interesting.

I opened up the task manager so I could watch when it would go to 100%
or near.

I opened up the Insert Picture browse window and it stayed nice and
calm at 1% usage. Until after a few seconds when the folder icon
updated to show the small icons of the images within that folder. As
soon as that happened, it went to near 100%.

And it's not happening elsewhere in the file structure right now.

What is it about those two JPGs (even after having done a Save As in
Photoshop) that is so messed up?

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