XP Explorer Runaway

Discussion in 'Windows OS's' started by aaronx1, Sep 29, 2006.

  1. aaronx1

    aaronx1 Geek Trainee

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    I have a new Gateway dual core, 1GB, WinXP Media Edition pile of junk. After booting up, it

    it becomes mostly unusable within a couple of hours due to Win Explorer gobbling up more

    than 50% of CPU resources. Re-booting calms the beast down for another couple of hours.

    After customer support could not resolve my problem, I painstakingly re-formatted and

    re-installed Win XP. The same problem returned. Please note that this is not due to a virus,

    adware or other nasty. Also note that it is not due to a corrupt .AVI file. The few I have

    are stored on a separate disc, play good, and not accessed when the problem occurs. I tried

    using a windows explorer replacement, but can't access my desktop or other programs. Hitting

    the windows logo flag thing does nothing. If nothing can fix this, do you know of a Win

    Explorer replacement that will let me access all programs and my desktop.
     
  2. Anti-Trend

    Anti-Trend Nonconformist Geek

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    How much RAM does your system have?
     
  3. Chris_

    Chris_ Excalibur

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    I think that 1GB means his total RAM..
     
  4. aaronx1

    aaronx1 Geek Trainee

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    1 GB Ram, 228GB Disk with 204GB free.
     
  5. thoonie

    thoonie hmmm....

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    Have you tried asking for a replacement disk? Your copy of win xp disk might be corrupted.
     
  6. Anti-Trend

    Anti-Trend Nonconformist Geek

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    That's what I get for trying to help when I've got a million other things going on. :p I'd make sure that DMA is enabled on each IDE channel, and that all applicable chipset drivers are installed and functioning.
     
  7. Chris_

    Chris_ Excalibur

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    Haha, AT, we all make mistakes sometimes :p
     
  8. Karanislove

    Karanislove It's D Grav80 Of Luv

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    make sure that u've got the latest service pack installed on ur system...
     

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