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Old 01-22-04, 12:24 AM Thread Starter   #1
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Explorer out of control!!


My roomates laptop (win XP) has been acting sluggish lately so he had me take a look at it. I honestly do not have time right now to spend hours trouble shooting, so I'm hoping you guys can help me out.

Anyways, the two times I've checked the task manager, explorer has been using 99% of the cpu, and has been at 170mb and 200mb mem usage.

I had him scan with adaware w/ the latest definitions. Nothing came up. Virus scan is still pending, as I am going to use antivirus.com since I do not know if his norton is updated.

Does this problem ring a bell for anyone???

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Old 01-22-04, 02:35 AM   #2
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sounds like a virus to me. panda has a free online antivirus I have used for similar things
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Old 01-22-04, 08:05 AM   #3
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I hope you disable indexing service. It lagged the hell outta me sometimes.

Oh I forgot to add sometimes Explorer might go bonkers. Try a chkdsk /r and defrag sometimes they solve some of my explorer related problems.

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Old 01-22-04, 09:13 PM Thread Starter   #4
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Virus scan shows not one virus.
Adaware came up with a couple of cookies.

I have yet to check indexing services. I've never seen anything like this, its like a p2p program is d/l at 200kb/sec only its named explorer.exe . I have yet to look through the run section of the registry, which I plan on doing next.

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Old 01-23-04, 08:00 PM Thread Starter   #6
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OK I checked for errors, defragged, and disabled indexing. If the problem still pops up, I will try spy bot.

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