Explorer.exe uses 99% of CPU

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Mary O'Brien

An XP-Pro workstation began running very slow and a look at Task Manager
showed that Explorer.exe was using 99% of CPU.

Virus and spyware checks showed nothing...
No new programs installed...

Start-up Control Panel shows nothing unwanted starting with Windows.

Stopping the Explorer.exe process in Task Manager and then restarting it
with Task Manager cured it. But every time XP is restarted the it happens
again and Explorer.exe has to be stopped/restarted in Task Manager to
normalize it.

Any suggestions for a permanent fix appreciated.

Mary
 

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