explorer.exe memory usage

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From: Steve (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:43:15 -0700

Hi
I wonder if anyone can help/has any ideas re the following:

All afternoon today, my system goes through phases where
EVERYTHING goes extremely slow. (pc is P4-2.8, 512 ram,
400 gig hdd's).

When i see which processes are running, i can see that
explorer.exe is taking anything between 60mb and 120mb of
memory and the cpu is running around 90-95%.

I've rebooted etc., all seems fine, then it starts again.
Nothing changes when i close down all other running app's.

Just click and wait all the time

Any ideas and/or suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Many thanks
Steve

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