Explorer.exe going nuts! WTF????

[Drew Angell]

Everyone once in awhile explorer.exe begins to suddenly
eat up 140,000K or more Mem Usage and holds my CPU usage
steady at about 90% or higher successfully bogging down
my system greatly.

I have seen this in the past on my old machine and also
I've seen it a friend's house on his machine...he started
freaking out about it...we haven't been able to figure it
out.

The past couple days it seems to be happening more to
me. In fact...for the first time ever...it happened to
BOTH my machines at the same time! I've got 2 machines
on a linksys router. One started acting up...so I got on
the other right quick to post some forum messages...and
sure enough it was doing it to! Had to log off both
machines and back on. Which does fix it...but it's
happened to this single machine again today and is VERY
AGGRIVATING!

Anyone have any idea what would be causing this? Any
information you could give would be greatly apprecaited.

Thanks!

[Allan]

Drew,
Are you sure you have enough memory installed? Also, I don't know how old
your pc's are, but you'd be surprised how much dust can accumulate in the
fan, try checking there too, and see if things improve.
Good luck,
AL
"Drew Angell" > wrote in message
...
> Everyone once in awhile explorer.exe begins to suddenly
> eat up 140,000K or more Mem Usage and holds my CPU usage
> steady at about 90% or higher successfully bogging down
> my system greatly.
>
> I have seen this in the past on my old machine and also
> I've seen it a friend's house on his machine...he started
> freaking out about it...we haven't been able to figure it
> out.
>
> The past couple days it seems to be happening more to
> me. In fact...for the first time ever...it happened to
> BOTH my machines at the same time! I've got 2 machines
> on a linksys router. One started acting up...so I got on
> the other right quick to post some forum messages...and
> sure enough it was doing it to! Had to log off both
> machines and back on. Which does fix it...but it's
> happened to this single machine again today and is VERY
> AGGRIVATING!
>
> Anyone have any idea what would be causing this? Any
> information you could give would be greatly apprecaited.
>
> Thanks!

[Graham]

I found this on the MS Knowledgebase

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;317751

It says there is a patch for the problem
but the patch is not there they want you
to call there nonfree tech support to get
the patch ??? Only From Microst.


>-----Original Message-----
>Drew,
>Are you sure you have enough memory installed? Also, I
don't know how old
>your pc's are, but you'd be surprised how much dust can
accumulate in the
>fan, try checking there too, and see if things improve.
>Good luck,
>AL
>"Drew Angell" > wrote in message
...
>> Everyone once in awhile explorer.exe begins to suddenly
>> eat up 140,000K or more Mem Usage and holds my CPU
usage
>> steady at about 90% or higher successfully bogging down
>> my system greatly.
>>
>> I have seen this in the past on my old machine and also
>> I've seen it a friend's house on his machine...he
started
>> freaking out about it...we haven't been able to figure
it
>> out.
>>
>> The past couple days it seems to be happening more to
>> me. In fact...for the first time ever...it happened to
>> BOTH my machines at the same time! I've got 2 machines
>> on a linksys router. One started acting up...so I got
on
>> the other right quick to post some forum messages...and
>> sure enough it was doing it to! Had to log off both
>> machines and back on. Which does fix it...but it's
>> happened to this single machine again today and is VERY
>> AGGRIVATING!
>>
>> Anyone have any idea what would be causing this? Any
>> information you could give would be greatly
apprecaited.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
>
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