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Explorer.exe chewing cpu time. help
Name: johnking_19 Date: March 15, 2004 at 08:49:54 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: P4 2.4Gig/762mb
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Hello, when i boot it works fine till i open windows explorer.exe. Then explorer.exe process chews all cpu time. it may have to do with this d.exe worm. I tried SpybotSD, HJThis, and manually removing from registry and file sys. still does it... im all out of ideas. :-(
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