explorer.exe

[Brendan Perez]

I tried searching, but can't find much on what I'm looking
for, so here goes:

When rebooting, explorer.exe seems to take a long time to
finish loading. It will be accessing the disk pretty
heavily and taking 30-80% of the CPU, sometimes for as
long as 30 seconds.

I would like to think I keep my system as lean as
possible, only the most essential things are in the
various startup entries-registry and start menu. More
importantly, explorer is still "working" well after
everything has come up. This also happens when I end
explorer in task manager and re-run it.

I would like to know if someone can help me understand
what happens when explorer.exe loads. I figured it might
be loading shell handler stuff ie., whatever happens when
you right click a file and "scan with norton antivirus" is
one of the options.

Can anyone think of registry areas I should check for
stuff that explorer loads?

Also, I don't know if this is related, but my search menu
is always empty. If I click search from within a folder,
the drop down menu for "look in" doesn't enumerate all of
my drives anymore, and the "look in" box is empty the
first time I click search, closing and reopening the box
will put the current directory in that box.

I switched the search mode from the dog/wizard UI to
the "classical" windows 2000 style and it seems to work
right. The current dir. is in the box and I can click the
drop down box and see all my drives and pick where I want
to search. I'd still like to know why the dog/wizard mode
doesn't work right though.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Get rid of explorer,get Avant from
http://www.avantbrowser.com/download.html
and have a better surfing expirence.

 

[Guest]

I don't mean Internet Explorer, I'm talking about
explorer.exe - the windows shell. It's what loads the
start menu, icons and all sorts of other stuff.

As for broswers, I'm taking a real liking to Mozilla's
Firefox

 

[Guest]

Are you running fax service
If so this may tie up explorer.exe, this happened to me
Press CRTL+ALT+DEL to bring up task manager and look for "fxssvc" if you see this under processess then stop process
click on start and run msconfig and click on services and look for "fax" and uncheck the box. Click apply then ok then reboot
This is what I had done and all is well now
If you are not running fxssvc then while in task manager look to see what processess are using lots of cpu usage.

 

[Brendan Perez]

I always set the fax service to manual.
The only thing taking up resources like this is the explorer.exe process.
This what lead me to believe that my problem had to do with explorer plugin
type things.

Are you running fax service?
If so this may tie up explorer.exe, this happened to me.
Press CRTL+ALT+DEL to bring up task manager and look for "fxssvc" if you

see this under processess then stop process.

click on start and run msconfig and click on services and look for "fax"

and uncheck the box. Click apply then ok then reboot.

This is what I had done and all is well now.
If you are not running fxssvc then while in task manager look to see what

processess are using lots of cpu usage.

 

[Brendan Perez]

actually it's the explorer.exe process that takes up large amounts of CPU
time.
That's what made me think it was something that explorer loads or shell
helper objects, etc.

Are you running fax service?
If so this may tie up explorer.exe, this happened to me.
Press CRTL+ALT+DEL to bring up task manager and look for "fxssvc" if you

see this under processess then stop process.

click on start and run msconfig and click on services and look for "fax"

and uncheck the box. Click apply then ok then reboot.

This is what I had done and all is well now.
If you are not running fxssvc then while in task manager look to see what

processess are using lots of cpu usage.