Interent Explorer taking up lots of mem!


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For some reason my explorer keeps going crazy. :wacko:

Sometime it crashes, or it badly slows my PC down, i open task manager and i see that explorer.exe is using up loads of memory, and the CPU usage is flat lining at 100%

So i have to kill explorer then run it again, then its fine

But does anyone know why its doing this is in the first place, My PC isnt ****, spent loads upgrading it a bit ago, ive never had this problem b4, i havent made an major changes to it since i upgraded it, and its been workin fine since then up until now, i dont have any virus, or spyware.

Im clueless, anyone got any idea's?

Cheers

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Internet Explorer and Explorer are different.

if explorer is crashing, run an antivirus scanner, in safe mode and see what comes up.

Installed anything lately? up to date virus and spyware signature files? what AV you running?

Installed new drivers? New programs? New toolbars etc etc etc etc etc

Windows updates?

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if its Internet Explorer, then check for running processes that may be adware / spyware as alot of these apps run in the background as toolbars, popup's etc.

all of these can effect Internet Explorer, as previously said check for latest virus / spyware defintions and do a thorough check. Thats you're best bet mate ;)

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Yeah its explorer.exe and not IEXPLORER.exe

My anti virus is, eTrust Aintivirus, came with CD i orderd from microsoft with updates on a while ago.

And nah i havent installed anything apart from a update of msn messenger, no tool bars either

Not installed or updated any drivers or anything

My anti virus signatures updates daily

I installed 7 windows updates, but that was after this started to happen

Explorer does crash, but am able to stop the proccess in task manager, and then run it again, then its fine after that

cheers

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