i am currently running windows xp sp2. on my computer, i have a particular folder where i keep all my personal files such as movies, mp3s, pictures, etc. a couple days ago, i noticed that whenever i opened this folder, my computer started to slow down, and eventually my explorer.exe crashed. so i kept my processes tab open and opened this folder, and my explorer.exe process would immediately shoot to 50% cpu usage, and after sometime, 99%, and explorer.exe would crash and i would have to start over. but when i would turn the view from this folder to tiles, this error would not occur. i backed up my personal files and reformatted my computer and moved them back over, and this error is still occuring. this is becoming very troublesome and i would like to eliminate the problem in case it is part of something bigger. many thanks in advance.