Re: Explorer.exe is making my computer unusable

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance

From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:31:38 +1100

Time to install, and maintain, a good virus scanner . . .

"Sw3despills" <sw3despills@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OHPY5On%23DHA.4012@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I had 2 viruses. Thanks for the advice guys
>
> "Normjr" <normjr@bentonrea.com> wrote in message
> news:1D5A73F0-B1B6-4204-A1A2-F05CA910A7A4@microsoft.com...
> > I had similar problem It was caused by my firewall.
> > After about seven hours the Firewall's (Zone Alarm) main TSR(?) was
eating
> up all of my RAM.
> > When I attempted to use any program like BPFTP my CPU usage shot up to
> over 97%.
> >
> > ----- Sw3despills wrote: -----
> >
> > I have no spyware and recently the computer just won't respond
> whenever I
> > open something like my documents or explorer. I pull up task
manager
> and the
> > cpu usage is 100%, and it only goes down when I end the
explorer.exe
> > process. Doing this leaves me with nothing (obviously), and I have
to
> > restart the explorer.exe process. After this it starts all over
> again. There
> > is nothing I can see that is making it do this. In safe mode it
works
> fine,
> > but I don;t want to run my computer in safe made all the time. I
> can;t look
> > at files and I'm at my wits end. If anyone could help I would
greatly
> > appreciate it.
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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