CPU at 100% after moving large files

[Ian M. Walker]

Every time I move a large file (a movie for instance), my
CPU utilization remains at 100% with explorer timing
out. I have to reboot to resolve this. Any suggestions
please?

Thanks.

[Quaoar]

Ian M. Walker wrote:
> Every time I move a large file (a movie for instance), my
> CPU utilization remains at 100% with explorer timing
> out. I have to reboot to resolve this. Any suggestions
> please?
>
> Thanks.

I believe that this is caused by XP wanting to copy the entire avi file
into memory before executing the move, copy, delete.

This might help, I know it helped on my wife's HP laptop: the following
is a quote from another post, sorry I can't acknowledge the author, I
failed to save his name:

> Avi files (divx) can be trouble in xp. There is a fix to let xp
> behave much better so it's possible to move or delete large avi
> files. The obnoxious bug in XP that causes Explorer to read the
> entire contents of broken AVI files before allowing any access to
> them is caused by bad behavior of shmedia.dll. To correct this
> misbehavior in Windows XP, remove the following registry
> key.(directions below)
>
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesCLSID{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC
73E}
> InProcServer32
> --This will prevent Explorer from loading shmedia.dll in response to
> file property queries on these files.

Q

[Gerry Cornell]

Ian

Moving files involves writing to disk and deleting from disk. Try =
copying and then deleting and you will see how long the tasks take. =
Often it is not always apparent from the screen that the deleting =
process is still in progress. You may find copying and then using =
Shift+Delete quicker because it bypasses the Recycle bin. Rebooting may =
not be a good idea because you are not allowing a process to complete =
and run the risk of leaving data errors on your disk!

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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