Explorer! help me

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:45 pm

ok so explorer.exe is this gigantic resource hog most of the time, it didn't happen before so what's wrong

it works for a while if i close it and then run it again but soon it's capiche again!

Geno · Post by **Geno** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 9:30 pm

One word: Firefox.

Maybe you got some spyware or something like that. Check for some and/or reformat. Check the processes open also.

Run -> Execute -> msconfig
That might be a good choice to check the programs that start also.

Emn1ty · Post by **Emn1ty** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:53 pm

my IE is always fine. I just have a litle truole with mutiple windows, it makes everything slow down. But that is it. Try a system restore to the time before all this happened, or get ad-aware

Urizen · Post by **Urizen** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:08 am

One word: Opera

jiujitsu · Post by **jiujitsu** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:11 am

explorer.exe isn't Internet Explorer. explorer.exe is basically what lets you navigate Windows. The taskbar, the icons, etc.

I'm not sure about your problem, Gimpmask. I've never had trouble with it.
It shouldn't be using up too much of your resources.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 1:18 am

What steps have you taken to counter the problem?

Geno · Post by **Geno** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 5:16 am

Doh. Stupid me.

Maybe you got some spyware or something like that. Check for some and/or reformat. Check the processes open also.

Run -> Execute -> msconfig
That might be a good choice to check the programs that start also.

Emn1ty · Post by **Emn1ty** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:11 am

Oh, well in that case, if it isnt internet explorer, which mine says explorer.exe for some stupid reason, Still downloa Ad-Aware and Spy-Bot.

Run tose and that should take care of any problems with spyware or possible virus sources.

Radoteur · Post by **Radoteur** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:45 am

I usually just smash my head on the keyboard. Clears things right up.

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:20 am

So, how much exactly is gigantic resource hog?

I have always around 15MB.

Geno · Post by **Geno** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 6:00 pm

It's Windows the resource hog.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 6:06 pm

Ooh ooh! Post your favourite resource hog!

Mine's CLI from the Catalysts driver ( Actually there's up to 2-3 of them ) and kpfgui ( also 2 since I can't be bothered to start it up manually ). Together they eat 0-85% of my cpu, usually in moronic patterns.

jiujitsu · Post by **jiujitsu** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 6:43 pm

I usually don't have resource problems. Unless I'm playing a game made by Troika.

Geno · Post by **Geno** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:17 pm

Konfabulator is a big resource hog. It's useful, but the clock take lots of my memory. A widget to monitor the memory takes lots of memory itself...

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 8:01 pm

St. Toxic wrote:Ooh ooh! Post your favourite resource hog!

Mine is Idle Process. Cantake up to 99% of system resourcess

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 9:39 pm

If restarting explorer doesn't work, you probably have a virus.

vx trauma · Post by **vx trauma** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 10:17 pm

format harddrive and install windows again.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:06 am

Firefox uses up some pretty serious resources, actually, which kind of bugs me since it's supposed to be the lean and mean alternative to Mozilla, which must really be an 800 pound gorilla (despite being, I'm sure, loaded with great features).

I also hate how much resources Azureus (BitTorrent client) uses when you open the program with a torrent already in progress and it starts checking the files to see what pieces have been downloaded. It really hogs the processor.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:13 am

You have to pay for quality.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:08 am

vx trauma wrote:format harddrive and install windows again.

Why Windows?
Install Linux instead.

Then you can skip all the expensive Windows games and devote yourself
to deeply intellectual text adventure games.

In French.