[RESOLVED] explorer.exe utilizing 100% CPU
Ok here's the deal, last night I was working on making my parents a picture slideshow DVD for their 25th Anniversary and I was browsing google image search for copyright free clipart to use on the DVD Case. Well I found some nice clips and when to download them by right clicking on the image and doing a save as and my my computer locked up in the save as window. Well I killed the task using task manager and the computer was still sluggish so I rebooted.
After the reboot the computer worked fine until I explorered the My Pictures folder where I had the Slideshow images saved. This is also the folder I tried to save the online clipart to. When I look in task manager explorer.exe eats up my CPU at 99-100%. I can usually recover by killing the explorer process and restarting it, but the problem keeps coming back when I go back to that folder. I tried moving the data out of that folder into a new one, but the computer gets so sluggish that I can not complete that.
Here's what I have done to try and remedy the situation. I tried to do a system restore to the last save point. That didn't help so I disabled system restore and scanned for viruses and malware using Norton, Bitdefender online and Ewido Online and all is clean (in Safe Mode). I cleared the internet explorer cookies and online content files. I ran a ScanDisk on all the hard drives and a complete defrag. I was unable to test to see if the problem still happened this morning because I was running late, but I thought I would post the problem to see if anyone else has experienced this and knows what else I can try. I am not sure why it is doing this unless the computer is searching for something in that folder that is not there. Thanks