I've had a problem for quite a while now, where explorer.exe will consume nearly 100% of my CPU usage. Now I've searched google and various forums to see if this is a common issue. It appears it is, but nobody has a real solution.
My problem is directly related to my entering a directory that houses very large files (ie. several files over 700mb). It will never happen anywhere else. After my last routine format, I decided to break up any large files into seperate directories and never let any particular direct expand over 4-5GB. This did seem to help the problem somewhat, but it still occurs -- and it DOESN'T seem to be directly correlated with the size of the folder. As long as a directory has a file or two over 700mb, this problem will occassionally occur (but not 100% of the time). I have to ctrl-alt-delete, end task 'explorer.exe' then restart it to resolve the problem.
My best guess is the Windows file system was not designed to work with so many huge files in a directory. The system is completely clear of spyware (using both Adaware and Spybot S&D) as well as viruses (Norton Antivirus 2004, recent definitions).
Specs:
Pentium 4 2.6C (o/c'd to 3.12ghz -- this has no effect on the problem, tried it both ways)
Western Digital 120GB w/ 8mb Cache
Micron 512MB PC3200 RAM
Windows XP Professional in NTFS.
I think that is all the relevant information. Anyone care to take a stab at this bizarre problem?
My problem is directly related to my entering a directory that houses very large files (ie. several files over 700mb). It will never happen anywhere else. After my last routine format, I decided to break up any large files into seperate directories and never let any particular direct expand over 4-5GB. This did seem to help the problem somewhat, but it still occurs -- and it DOESN'T seem to be directly correlated with the size of the folder. As long as a directory has a file or two over 700mb, this problem will occassionally occur (but not 100% of the time). I have to ctrl-alt-delete, end task 'explorer.exe' then restart it to resolve the problem.
My best guess is the Windows file system was not designed to work with so many huge files in a directory. The system is completely clear of spyware (using both Adaware and Spybot S&D) as well as viruses (Norton Antivirus 2004, recent definitions).
Specs:
Pentium 4 2.6C (o/c'd to 3.12ghz -- this has no effect on the problem, tried it both ways)
Western Digital 120GB w/ 8mb Cache
Micron 512MB PC3200 RAM
Windows XP Professional in NTFS.
I think that is all the relevant information. Anyone care to take a stab at this bizarre problem?
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