Is this normal

[WitWolf]

Is it normal for explore.exe to use up to 60mb of memory on a laptop ? And averaging on about plus minus 45mb ? If have look at the same process on my desktop and it average at 23mb and never goes above 30mb. Done all the scans so far and havent picked anything up yet. Fixed registry as well.

 

[thisgeek]

No, that doesn't sound normal to me... but then again, it's Microsoft, so who knows what's really normal.

 

[Toxin]

What about explorer.exe using 95-99% of your CPU? That's been happening to me alot these days. Even after reinstalling windows.

*Edit* Not permanently tho. Sometimes when I startup explorer it does it, sometimes not.

 

[andres101]

What about explorer.exe using 95-99% of your CPU? That's been happening to me alot these days. Even after reinstalling windows.

*Edit* Not permanently tho. Sometimes when I startup explorer it does it, sometimes not.

if you have a lot of movies/pics/zip files on your drive, this is normal. especially so if you have indexing enabled.

explorer goes off and creates thumbnails for pics and movies (which it stores in a hidden Thumbs.db file). it also tries to index all the zip files which can take ages if they are >100Mb.

turn off indexing and see if it helps?! if you can disable the integrated zip functionality, please tell me how!! i only use winrar now because of this explorer crap!

 

[Toxin]

*slaps himself on the head*

Ahhhhhh, indexing. Will check it out.

 

[P0tenc]

Or it could be a virus causing it.

 

[WitWolf]

Index services is off and no virus found om the laptop.

 

[Kropotkin]

if you have a lot of movies/pics/zip files on your drive, this is normal. especially so if you have indexing enabled.

explorer goes off and creates thumbnails for pics and movies (which it stores in a hidden Thumbs.db file). it also tries to index all the zip files which can take ages if they are >100Mb.

turn off indexing and see if it helps?! if you can disable the integrated zip functionality, please tell me how!! i only use winrar now because of this explorer crap!

Another thing. If a movie or pic is corrupted (especially avi files), explorer.exe will hang at 99% when it tries to create the thumbnail. It is usually the headers in movie files that get corrupted so you should still be able to play them, but Windows can't create the thumbs. This also happens when you click on a corrupted movie as explorer tries to get information from the file (bitrates, length and size).

 

[WitWolf]

Now, I am confused. Just finished a wipe and reload of my laptop and it is still doing the same ?!?!?

 

[rburley]

explorer should be using about 15mb. 60mb is way too much