Re: Explorer is leaking memory and eating CPU

The problem will only occure some rare times, and I assosiate it with
audio-video edditing tools or codecs. The last time only SoundForge and
VirtualDubMod was running. MPEG2 codecs are the ATI build of Cyberlink. and
AVI codec (for both video and audio) is ffdshow. It's most likely that
explorer and ffdshow don't like each other, so I'd like to disable thumbnail
preview and any other code that is trying to open AVI files in explorer,
when I select or drag them. I guess that explorer will not dispose and clean
the memory of AX controls after using them and this causes my problems.
Sooner or later, a thread may stuck infinite looping and eating memory.


""Ken Zhao [MSFT]"" <v-kzhao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:xclJGQF4GHA.4956@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello George,

Thank you for using newsgroup!

From your post, does the issue also occur in Safe Mode?

I suggest we first restart the computer in Safe Mode to see if
explorer.exe
is taking up more CPU usage. Safe Mode loads a minimally protected-mode
configuration, disabling Windows device drivers and using the standard VGA
display adapter.

1. Restart the computer.
2. Keep pressing F8 key until the Windows Startup menu appears.
3. Choose the Safe Mode, and press Enter.

Note: Some third party applications and hardware devices cannot be used
during Safe Mode. You will temporarily be unable to connect to the
Internet
while in Safe Mode.

Thanks & Regards,

Ken Zhao

Microsoft Online Partner Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

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| SYSTEM details: latest windows updates installed. Athlon XP 1700+, 1GB
RAM.
|
| I just ran out of Memory on my home PC, while compressing a two hour
long
| WAV file to MP3 in SoundForge 8.0d. Don't blame SoundForge, it's using
| only 28MB RAM.
| I received the Low Memmory error, and noticed that Explorer is eating
50%
of
| CPU (the other 50% were for compressing audio in SoundForge). I killed
the
| Explorer process and noticed that about 400MB of RAM were freed.
|
| 1. What should I do the next time? Choose debug in TaskManager to open
| VisualStudio 2005 and see what code is running inside Explorer?
|
| 2. I noticed that if I kill Explorer, and work without it, the disk
| performance in VirtualDubMod will be significantly better, when
extracting
| audio. Can you tell me of another shell?
|
| 3. I'm bored from not being able to delete or move a video file on this
and
| any other computer running XP. How do I prevent thumbnail preview for
video
| files?
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