EXPLORER.EXE at 100% CPU ?

[paul]

This is a P4 1.7ghz Windows XP SP2.

Possibly unrelated but worth mentioning. Two days ago I began seeing browser
hijacks to two websites.
First was always "trafficexplorer.com" then would jump to
"antispyware.winantivirus.com".
As suggested in a previous thread, I ran spybot s&d, adaware, MS A/S and
Norton A/V all in safe mode.
Some repairs were made and I have not seen the browser hijack return yet.

Intermittantly the machine just goes into 100% CPU showing EXPLORER.EXE as
the culprit.
As best I can tell this is the desktop.

I did add a new LCD display (Envision 9410) and the 64MB video card has the
monitor running in its native mode of 1280x1024 @ 60hz.

Can the display (or adapter) settings have anything to do with my
EXPLORER.EXE being at 100% CPU?

Paul D

 

[paul]

I just found out that the CDROM drive was not reading disks.
After disconnecting it, the CPU is back to normal.