memory leak

[Guest]

I've got some sort of memory leak. My P4 2.4 machine (1024 Mb RAM) uses regularly 200.000 K just for Explorer and 90% of the CPU, thus getting terribly slow. Shutting down Explorer in Taskmanager helps (for a while). Any idea how to solve this?

 

[Rob Schneider]

I've got some sort of memory leak. My P4 2.4 machine (1024 Mb RAM) uses regularly 200.000 K just for Explorer and 90% of the CPU, thus getting terribly slow. Shutting down Explorer in Taskmanager helps (for a while). Any idea how to solve this?

Since you didn't (probably) compile from source code your own copy of
Explorer, your copy of Explorer is just like everyone elses and they
aren't reporting a memory leak.

Windows, and well-written Windows applications, will use as much memory
as they can. You have a lot of memory (based on average), so it's
likely you'll see higher memory usage. I wouldn't worry about this
aspect of the problem.

By chance have you got any other nefarious programs running which are
the root cause of the problem? Checked for spy-bot and viruses? Can
you tell what Explorer is doing to use up 90% of CPU? If you shut it
down, do you see any performance problems ever? Is it only when
Explorer is restarted to you see the problem come back?

 

[ThePainter]

There is a similar problem reported on explorer which is
caused when you try to access a large .avi file with a
corrupted index file , explorer searches the whole file
and then when it cant find it it searches again this
locks up your system .microsoft are working on a fix but
it wont be available until the release of service pack 2
but there is registry tweak available on this site

http://www.dvdrhelp.com/forum/userguides/100406.php

which allows you to delete these files because you cant
delete these files with a locked up system

-----Original Message-----

(1024 Mb RAM) uses regularly 200.000 K just for Explorer
and 90% of the CPU, thus getting terribly slow. Shutting
down Explorer in Taskmanager helps (for a while). Any
idea how to solve this?

 

[purplehaz]

That's not a memory leak. CPU cycles have nothing to do with memory. I would
suspect spyware/adware/virus. This is the most common culprit of slowing
your machine down and spiking explorer.
Sounds like spyware or a home page hijacker.

Run these tools weekly:
spybot -- http://www.safer-networking.org/
ad-aware -- http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
HiJackThis - http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/