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« on: November 16, 2009, 09:38:08 AM »

EXPLORER.EXE 100% CPU AND MEMORY RISES

Solution 1

open a dos-box
press control alt delete
in taskmanager close down explorer.exe
delete all NOT PLAYING avi files…

problem solved..? Yes/No

if not try:

Solution 2

remove the following registry key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}\InProcServer32

This will prevent Explorer from loading shmedia.dll in response to file property queries on these files. This will not effect your ability to play files, get file attributes, or even view thumbnails. Say goodbye to all explorer.exe 100% CPU issues.

Solution 3

Well windows seem to have a REALLY big problem when it comes to reading AVI files. It seems that when you click on an AVI file in explorer, it’ll try to read the entire AVI file to determine the width,height, etc. of the AVI file (this is displayed in the Properties window). Now the problem with Windows is that if you have a broken/not fully downloaded AVI file that doesnt contain this info, Windows will scan the entire AVI file trying to figure out all these properties which in the process will probably cause 100% CPU usage and heavy memory usage.

To solve this problem all you have to do is the following:

1. Open up regedit
2. Goto HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAs
sociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler
3. Delete the “Default” value which should be “{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}”

Please note that this will no longer provide you with the windows properties displaying the AVI file information such as width, height, bitrate etc. But its a small price to pay for saving you resources.
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« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2011, 03:28:20 AM »

Does this work on windows 7 also? just curious not that mine has a problem
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« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2011, 06:59:31 AM »

Every issue is never the same
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« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2011, 08:55:32 AM »

Nice Tips Brian
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« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2011, 10:31:41 AM »

 Azn Brian,
cheers for those tips very enlightening and helpful, take care

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