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explorer.exe use 100% cpu
Name: tsubi Date: December 22, 2002 at 01:11:02 Pacific OS: Win XP Pro SP1 CPU/Ram: 2000/512
Comment:
hi, i have a problem. explorer.exe uses 100% of my cpu even when idle. this happens after i open windows explorer. can anyone help? thanks in advance. tsubi
Name: p2p Date: December 22, 2002 at 04:54:35 Pacific
Reply:
Follow the instructions from the fifth post down on this page http://computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/18564.html
Post reply on this board if it works for you too.
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Response Number 2
Name: tsubi Date: December 22, 2002 at 05:20:54 Pacific
Reply:
first of all sorry for not having looked at the posts before posting mine...second of all...problem fixed :) thanks a lot!
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Response Number 3
Name: Aries Date: January 31, 2003 at 13:36:01 Pacific
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I had the same problem with a 2.4 GHz, 512K PC2100, RAM NVDIA GeForce 4 Ti - totally worked. I thought it might have been a virus that had slipped through Norton, but this fix worked no problem first time... Good thing too though - in my eagerness to try this fix I spaced my key (in other words backup the registry first!).
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