Thanks for the reply, tried it and I'm afraid it didnt work...yes it
registered the dll, but the memory problem still exsists. The PC did have the
Dlder.exe trojan, which I'm told can be part of the problem, that has been
removed and any traces of it in the registry deleted. I think now the only
course of action is to wipe it and start afresh, unless anyone else has any
ideas. Screen res and drivers haven't changed at all. I am sure that the
small icons and the memory prob is linked somehow as the issue only happens
when opening a folder containing pics. Anyway, thanks for trying. Cheers

"Olórin" wrote:

Anthony wrote:
Hi there, I can use my PC like normal, opening and closing programs,
but as soon as I browse using My Computer or Windows Explorer to a
folder that contains images, explorer.exe goes though the roof with
the memory usage. Shoots from 25k to over 100mb in no time. Even saw
it go over 1gb yesterday. I have virus scanned repeatedly, scanned
for spyware, run hijack this, and the computer looks completely
clean. Also, I dont know if this is related or not, but the
thumbnails of the pictures are alot smaller than normal, and some of
them look like the are in 256 colors not the usual 32 bit. I'm
stumped on this one, hopefully someone can point me in a direction I
should be looking. I've googled my butt off looking for an answer,
but thus far, to no avail. Cheers

Try this: click Start Run type

regsvr32 shimgvw.dll

and press Enter. Hopefully you'll get a message saying "DllRegisterServer in
shimgvw.dll succeeded". Click OK on that and see if things are better on the
memory front.

Not sure on the thumbnail sizes - have you changed your screen
resolution/colour depth or your video card driver recently?


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