Explorer uses 100% CPU

[WildFinn]

For some reason Explorer uses all CPU power, and two of my friends have similar problems. This happens usually when my computer has been on for several hours...
System freezes for a few minutes and then it works fully again for hours.

System:
Windows XP Professional
Abit BF6
Celeron 633
640Mb RAM
Creative GeForce 2 GTS
128 SB
etc...

 

[Qumahlin]

I am searching all over for a reason/cure for this problem...it happened to a previous install of XP I had...I re-installed and fixed it...by one friend said to copy explorer.exe from dllcache and replace the normal one and that worked for him, but I can't verify that.

 

[Stircrazy]

When i got my xp pro i had 64mb ram too and since thats XPs min amout it dont work so great on some progs i didnt have probs with IE but i did with other ones but once i got more ram xp seems to fly by like was nothing lol
2 recomendations
1 get more RAM
2 if you cant do that then look here and try and get best out of your Virtual ram settings
http://www.xp-erience.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7847
Above has a few nice tweaks and here
http://www.xp-erience.org/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=14#u
and just plain look in tweaks area of this site

 

[Twink]

Originally posted by Stircrazy
When i got my xp pro i had 64mb ram too

He said 640MB not 64.

 

[WildFinn]

Problem solved...

I uninstalled HotFix:Q317277 as Zerek suggested at another thread, and now system seems to be stable...
I have my computer on 24/7, so now I'll just wait and see if this uninstallation was the cure 🙂