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From: "Bill Lynn" <
[email protected]>
Subject: dual explorer.exe processes in task manager
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 12:35:04 -0700
I have two explorer.exe running in task manager and my
computer is sluggish. When I
remove "Explorer.exe"(capital "e") the operating speed is
normal, this file also has the lower memeory usage. If I
remove"explorer.exe" I lose the desktop ICON's and have to
reboot.
I've tried registry cleaner and other things but no
success.
Help apprecated!!!
Thanks.
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There should only be ONE instance of explorer.exe running (which is the
process that runs your desktop, as you have noticed). The Explorer.exe is
very suspicious....often spyware and viruses will "disguise" themselves as
system processes to avoid visible detection, they use different
capitalization to give themselves the same name as a system process. I
would suggest looking in the following locations for this Explorer.exe
1. Everywhere, with Adaware (or the equivalent malware removal tool)
2. The Run registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
3. The file system, by using the "search" in the Start menu (or by the path
as indicated in the entry in the registry as per step 2)
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