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Explorer.exe gone MAD

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by barsk

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Situation: ON my WindowsXP Pro from time to time Explorer.exe begin to eate processor time(take ~20%)...
Rebooting halp, but temporary. After 30-50 minuts of normal work it usualy happen again.

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by chris_beegle

Run and look for explorer

pstat |more

pid:7b4 pri: 8 Hnd: 271 Pf: 13093 Ws: 12088K explorer.exe
tid pri Ctx Swtch StrtAddr User Time Kernel Time State
7b8 9 9460 77E7EB41 0:00:00.375 0:00:00.593 Wait:UserRequest
7c8 10 27456 77E802F4 0:00:00.734 0:00:04.218 Wait:UserRequest
7cc 8 2 77E802F4 0:00:00.000 0:00:00.000 Wait:DelayExecution
7d0 8 2511 77E802F4 0:00:00.562 0:00:04.500 Wait:EventPairLow
7d4 10 3 77E802F4 0:00:00.000 0:00:00.000 Wait:UserRequest
7e4 10 2693 77E802F4 0:00:00.218 0:00:00.484 Wait:UserRequest
cc 10 4384 77E802F4 0:00:00.187 0:00:00.218 Wait:UserRequest
a0 15 20 77E802F4 0:00:00.000 0:00:00.000 Wait:UserRequestThe format looks a little better than here. But you may be able to determine an issue from this command. It will give you a break down of all of the threads exploder has opened.

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