Hi there
i have been having this problem for a while and have yet get it solved. i am not a computer smart person so i really need help here.
i am using Win XP home edition, recently the taskbar kinda freezes up every few minutes. and occasionally, error window pops up saying 'windows explorer has an error...' when OK button clicked, the taskbar kinda disappeared and appeared again.. it kinda refreshes itself. if i may say so.
during the freeze up, i cant click on the Start button, n all the windows that i might have open are not displayed on the taskbar. the clock stopped, and only way i can switch in between opened programs is to use Alt-Tab.
in the Task Manager (Alt-Ctrl-Del), many processes running but only Explorer.exe uses up to 98% of the CPU memory. the rest shows 00. once i was doing a routine virus scan of my pc, realised that it's scanning really slowly.. i ended the Explorer.exe process(what ever it is its doing) and the scan sped up!!!
so, after all that, can someone tell me if i could stop all the processes that has 00 under the CPU column, and how to stop this explorer.exe process from consuming too much of my CPU memory. and any ideas on the taskbar freeze up??
Any comments and suggestions are welcome..
thank u
pingu
i have been having this problem for a while and have yet get it solved. i am not a computer smart person so i really need help here.
i am using Win XP home edition, recently the taskbar kinda freezes up every few minutes. and occasionally, error window pops up saying 'windows explorer has an error...' when OK button clicked, the taskbar kinda disappeared and appeared again.. it kinda refreshes itself. if i may say so.
during the freeze up, i cant click on the Start button, n all the windows that i might have open are not displayed on the taskbar. the clock stopped, and only way i can switch in between opened programs is to use Alt-Tab.
in the Task Manager (Alt-Ctrl-Del), many processes running but only Explorer.exe uses up to 98% of the CPU memory. the rest shows 00. once i was doing a routine virus scan of my pc, realised that it's scanning really slowly.. i ended the Explorer.exe process(what ever it is its doing) and the scan sped up!!!
so, after all that, can someone tell me if i could stop all the processes that has 00 under the CPU column, and how to stop this explorer.exe process from consuming too much of my CPU memory. and any ideas on the taskbar freeze up??
Any comments and suggestions are welcome..
thank u
pingu