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by rebecca6122002
Tue Dec 27, 2005 9:28 pm
Forum: Technical Questions
Topic: CPU reading a corrupted file and eating up capacity
Replies: 4
Views: 28241

Hi - I understand the point you are making but Spybot is only one of 4 such programmes I have running. I needed to stop the action as it was crippling my system.
I can now go back and look at it again without the whole thing freezing on me.
by rebecca6122002
Mon Dec 26, 2005 11:50 pm
Forum: Technical Questions
Topic: CPU reading a corrupted file and eating up capacity
Replies: 4
Views: 28241

Hi all- I deleted everything off the playlist - no effect. Then,after several days wading through the vast swamp inhabited by the tribe known as Techies, something one of them wrote rang a bell and the problem is solved. The explorer.exe was checking and rechecking a file but was unable to complete ...
by rebecca6122002
Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:58 am
Forum: Technical Questions
Topic: CPU reading a corrupted file and eating up capacity
Replies: 4
Views: 28241

CPU reading a corrupted file and eating up capacity

Hi - I have a nasty little problem. I downloaded a video file and it has corrupted my Explorer.exe so that the cpu reads the file very slowly and eats up the CPU capacity until the machine eventually crashes or runs out of resources and freezes. I have heard of this happening on XP with .avi files [...