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RE: Explorer.exe taking up so much CPU? - Shadow3273 - 03-13-2013
http://my.jetscreenshot.com/demo/20130313-s4ec-45kb
Is this the right thing?
RE: Explorer.exe taking up so much CPU? - LightX - 03-13-2013
Open up command prompt and type this: DRIVERQUERY
RE: Explorer.exe taking up so much CPU? - Shadow3273 - 03-13-2013
Hundreds of file names were listed with driver type and link date.
RE: Explorer.exe taking up so much CPU? - LightX - 03-13-2013
Here. Linuxephus found these threads as they might be helpful to you. Let me know if either helped.
http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/3291-explorer-exe-50-cpu-usage.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/185413-explorer-exe-high-cpu-usage-tried-everything-i-can-think.html
RE: Explorer.exe taking up so much CPU? - Linuxephus™ - 03-13-2013
(03-13-2013, 07:59 PM)LightX Wrote: Here. Linuxephus found these threads as they might be helpful to you. Let me know if either helped.
http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/3291-explorer-exe-50-cpu-usage.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/185413-explorer-exe-high-cpu-usage-tried-everything-i-can-think.html
This...means...War!:oO:
RE: Explorer.exe taking up so much CPU? - LightX - 03-13-2013
Haha. Careful! I got Kali!!!
RE: Explorer.exe taking up so much CPU? - Linuxephus™ - 03-13-2013
(03-13-2013, 08:22 PM)LightX Wrote: Haha. Careful! I got Kali!!!
Haha!
Carefull, Shadow has Windows!!
And I have Kubuntu with Kali's Repositories...installed.
Wait, what were we discussing?:hehe!:
RE: Explorer.exe taking up so much CPU? - LightX - 03-13-2013
haha yeah this got offtopic pretty quick.
ONTOPIC: Shadow did you do that yet?
RE: Explorer.exe taking up so much CPU? - Shadow3273 - 03-13-2013
Lol, you guys are funny. But thank you all! The second link helped me. The problem was that one of my desktop shortcut icons was corrupted, causing explorer.exe to go into a loop, consuming a lot of processing power. So I deleted the shortcut (Wasn't using it anyways) and the explorer.exe CPU consumption dropped right after the shortcut was deleted. I did a reboot to make sure and yup, it's now only taking up 0 to 1% of the CPU.
RE: Explorer.exe taking up so much CPU? - Linuxephus™ - 03-13-2013
(03-13-2013, 08:35 PM)Shadow3273 Wrote: Lol, you guys are funny. But thank you all! The second link helped me. The problem was that one of my desktop shortcut icons was corrupted, causing explorer.exe to go into a loop, consuming a lot of processing power. So I deleted the shortcut (Wasn't using it anyways) and the explorer.exe CPU consumption dropped right after the shortcut was deleted. I did a reboot to make sure and yup, it's now only taking up 0 to 1% of the CPU.
Ha!
After going thru your thread three times to eliminate all possibilities with an absolute certainty, the only actual problem that remained was a corrupt icon on the desktop.
Hence LightX shooting you those two links accordingly.
Excellent work as always LightX.:angel: