RE: 100% cpu explorer.exe

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: Kjetil (Kjetil_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:57:01 -0700

I have done everything you said, and no errors found..
When I want to for example go to my movies, they are located 2 subfolders
beneath "My Music", when I first go from "My Music" to "Movies", that works
fine, when I then continue to for example "funny clips" it freezes.. on the
other hand, I CAN create a short-cut from the desktop directly to the "funny
clips"-folder, and that will work.. I really can't figure out what is wrong
here, and really need more help..

-Kjetil

"r" wrote:

> Check Device Manager for hardware conflicts ...
> ... and Event Viewer (Start - > Settings -> Control Panel - > Administrative
> Tools - > Event Viewer) for possible errors.
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> Hope this helps!
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> Spyware/Virus Removal and Prevention:
> http://www.fixyourwindows.com/windowsxpsolutions.htm
> (Links to online virus scans on the same page)
>
> How to optimize Windows XP, 2000, ME
> for the best performance (Step-by-step Visual Guide):
> http://www.fixyourwindows.com
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> "Kjetil" wrote:
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> > when I browse through my D: which is a partition of my only hard disk, and is
> > where I've placed "my documents", the window tends to freeze every time, and
> > when I press ctrl-alt-del, I can see that explorer.exe is taking up 100% of
> > my cpu time.. it then tells me the window is not responding and has to
> > close.. sometimes, even when I've closed the window, explorer will keep
> > taking up 100% cpu time, and the only thing to do is to restart my computer.
> > nothing like this happends when I'm browsing c:. I've scanned for viruses and
> > the like using Norton, Adaware and Spybot, plus I've defragmented twice, once
> > with windows own defragmenter and once with another one, but nothing helps..
> > diskchk didn't help either.. I'm really lost here, and it is very annoying as
> > it is almost impossible to access my pictures and videos and the like.. all
> > help is appreciated..