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[SOLVED] explorer.exe high CPU usage - tried everything I can think of Hi, My explorer.exe is constantly using 30-45% of my 4-core CPU. I have determined after MUCH testing that the cause is likely not a virus / malware / rootkit. I have also: tested booting into safe mode (explorer.exe is...

Hi Everyone! Recently I watched a tutorial and loved the theme of the one who was recording the tutorial. I also need the same theme as in the picture below. If anyone has ever used it or seen it, please post a download link of the theme, CONTAINING: * The DockBar * The Wallpaper (which shows...

Hey, I just mooved from WinXP to Win7 with my software. My software needs to have real time response to I/O so it makes busy-wait in one thread (wich has affinity to run on one CPU). The result is 100% CPU on one of the cores and 0 CPU for others, in WinXP it worked just fine. In win7 the...

HELLO.Im green as ....and i got a few problems:my new google chrome is not so fast as it use to be.my cpu is going crazy when i use media players wmp or winamp it dosent matter,i think my laptop is using too much power in general. so when i want to hear music(the laptop is my only music source)i...

Any game i install on windows 7 that runs once after installation and when i run that game second time it doesn’t runs and CPU usage become 100% … In using AMD satellite L455D-S5976 laptop With 2GB DDR2 800MHz memory, 2.1GHz speed and 512KB L2 cache, ATI Radeon 3100 Graphic… Can anyone help...

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I'm having an unusual slow login problem that is very difficult to diagnose. I just purchased a new Toshiba laptop and I have been getting it set up and removing some of the bloatware that Toshiba installs. Over the last few days I...

Hi everyone recently after few minutes of power on of windows i got this: Link Removed not only this, the cpu usage become at 100%, slowing the whole pc, it even hangs a little and the clock glass cursor keep forever I Used: Avast Free 6 Malware Bytes Anti-Malware...

heya folks another gamer in trouble here! So here's the problem : when idle, my cpu usage is around 20%, which is allot more than it should be in my opinion. Whenever I start a game, Battlefield : Bad Company 2 which is the game i've been playing allot lately, my cpu usage doesnt come down from...

So, the problem is very simple - when I start the game, my battery won't charge. It only does on loading screens (when I enter or end battle). My laptop is Acer Aspire 8942G, Win 7 with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850. It looks like the game blocks or conflicts with my charger when I play it...

I am using Windows 7 professional x64.Recently I installed x64 version of MATLAB 7.10.Installation is perfect.It also worked perfectly for about five times.Then later it just flash the opening logo sreen then went off.I checked the task manager for the precess.Matlab is there consumeing almost...

Hi, I just reinstalled Windows 7 on my Toshiba Satellite A200 and it seems to freeze randomly when I open programs such as iTunes and other programs that need to load a lot of data. Here is the error that I get whenever it freeezes: -- Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen...

Hi, Lately I've been having a problem with explorer.exe using 30% or more of my processor. The problem seems to accrue after I close a full screen directx program(or at least I think). I've ran a virus scan using Trendmicro titanium and malwarebytes, but haven't found anything. My specs...

Hello friends, I am new to this forum. I have HP Pavilion dv6-2150us, owning since Jan 2010. Recently I have started facing this weird problem. When I switch ON my laptop, for the first 10-15mins the CPU usage constantly remains between 80 and 100% and after 15mins, it comes to normal (0 - 50%)...

I've found that it's much better (in my case) to run without integration features enabled on an XP VM. When I have them enabled, the following happens: - Can't do Start->Shutdown (it's removed from the menu) - Sometimes hangs if you click the Close icon (and have it set to shutdown) - CPU...

I'm running a Win7 Pro x64 host on a fast machine with 16GB of memory, so I'm not suspecting the host. The guest VM is an XPsp3 with 3GB of memory assigned to it. I'm using Win 7's Virtual PC (not "XP Mode", this was an old VM I brought along from my old PC) to run this VM. I don't have...

Hey Guys.... for the past couple days i've been experiencing some strange issues with my new laptop. to be clear, it's actually a mid 2010 Macbook Pro 15.4" that i bought to use exclusively as a PC laptop. long story short, i got fed up with low quality built PC laptops and wanted something...

Hello, I kinda have a problem, we'll atleast i think i do. Whenever my pc boots up, CPU usage is like 30-60% for 10 minutes after startup. I've checked process explorer and it looks like a process called svchost.exe (netsvc) is behind this problem. To be more exact, its the services i think...

Win7SP1 came up as a Windows automatic update last night so I installed it and have done three restarts and one more "check for updates" now to insure it has settled down. For major updates it is a good idea to watch the CPU Usage History graph in the Performance Tab of Task Manager so you know...

hi, i just bought a new laptop that has windows 7 installed. it is sooooooo slow. its driving me crazy. from googling a problem could be too my processes. it has 100-120 running with a high cpu usage. mostly 90% or so. i have another laptop running windows vista with 117 processes but the...