WHen ever I do anything that uses the explorer.exe like avant browser or my computer usage jumps to 99% and then stays that way even when I exit all programs . Anyone know whats going on . I have no viruses and my spyware sweeper has gotten rid of all spy programs. Anyone else experiance this ?
Explorer.exe taking 99% of my cpu
- Thread starter jvd
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On occasion, but it usually doesn't last too long. I choke it up to Windows being screwy, and am just glad I use other browsers 99% of the time. 
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I've seen this happen when trying to access somthing like a corrupt avi file. I suspect that Explorer's preview feature is trying to access the file, not being able to interpret it, and going bananas instead of dropping the file access gracefully.
One solution is to use taskmanager to kill Explorer, and then restart the desktop using the "run program" feature in task manager. You might not be able to manipulate any problem file in Explorer because just listing it will cause Explorer to access and lock it without being able to do anything with it. You might have to use a cmd window to delete the file.
One solution is to use taskmanager to kill Explorer, and then restart the desktop using the "run program" feature in task manager. You might not be able to manipulate any problem file in Explorer because just listing it will cause Explorer to access and lock it without being able to do anything with it. You might have to use a cmd window to delete the file.
