Re: windows exporer in overdrive

Mark

Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by
allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click on
the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties, Advanced,
Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck box before
Automatically Restart.

Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure until you have
resolved the problem. Check for variants of the Stop Error message.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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Markkk wrote:
I downloaded Process Explorer today and installed it to run instead
of my Task Manager. Since getting rid of the trojans and other
malware Tuesday, the computer has been much less hyperactive,
sounding more like it did during the first year after I bought it,
and before it started doing its excessive heavy breathing and slowing
down sometimes while printing, etc. So maybe those were the problem,
like you thought, though it did spontaneously shut down and reboot
shortly after being turned on this morning. This might be one of the
problems that Ken Blake wrote could possibly persist due to damage
done by the malware, so I may still have to reinstall Windows -- a
big job for which I'll have to back up data files, etc.

Overall, though, things seem better -- knock on wood -- and I'm ready
to track down any unknown excessive CPU usage with Process Explorer
if it comes back.

Thanks for your and Ken's help.


"Gerry" wrote:

Good. We're making progress. Let us know how thing get on.

Download Process Explorer to check unexplained CPU usage.

For further information about Process Explorer see here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx

It would be helpful if you could post the Command Line of the process
generating the excessive CPU usage. In Process Explorer place
cursor on Process and select Properties, Image.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Markkk wrote:
OK, I downloaded Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and ran a full scan,
finding 8 trojans, 1 Rogue.DriveCleaner and a Rootkit.Agent and
deleting them. We'll seeing if any of these were causing the
sporadic CPU hogging, which today showed up in iTunes for the first
time!


"Gerry" wrote:

Mark

Do you think Norton is infallible?

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
1.32 -freeware (if you upgrade you pay).
http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html

Run Malwarebytes' in safe mode and turn off Norton before you do to
avoid
a conflict. Disregard the invitation on the web site regarding the
Regostry Optimiser -a Registry Optimiser is not a helpful utitity.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Markkk wrote:
Well actually I was focusing on the Internet security options
settings in Windows because the hyperactivity and CPU hogging
takes place in iexplore.exe, running as I said at 50% and more.
So it seems like the culprit is Explorer and not, say, Norton
Security, which I also have. I'd just like some way of finding
out what iexplore.exe is doing when it's gobbling up so much CPU
capacity.


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:45:57 -0000, "Gerry" <gerry@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Ken

It may not mattter. Mark gave this answer to my question about
his anti-virus and anti-spyware arrangements "Do you mean the
internet option settings for security in the windows tool
option on the toolbar? If so, I've looked at them and can't
make much of them.". I take this to mean no anti-virus and
anti-spyware
installed.



Yes, you're very likely right, and that's very likely the source
of his problems.


Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:04:01 -0800, Markkk
<Markkk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm not sure. My windows task manager lists the process as
iexplore.exe. So whatever that is.



As I said, that's Internet Explorer, *not* Windows Explorer.


"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:10:12 -0800, Markkk
<Markkk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I would like to know what's going on when windows explorer
(iexplore.exe) goes into overdrive, hogging 50% of my CPU
capacity and slowing my computer down to an intolerable
crawl when I visit certain websites that seem totally safe,
like huffington.com. Can anyone explain this bad behavior
to me and tell me how to correct it?


Iexplore.exe is Internet Explorer, not Windows Explorer.
Which are you talking about?

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