XP Explorer Runaway

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aaronx1

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I have a new Gateway dual core, 1GB, WinXP Media Edition pile of junk. After booting up, it

it becomes mostly unusable within a couple of hours due to Win Explorer gobbling up more

than 50% of CPU resources. Re-booting calms the beast down for another couple of hours.

After customer support could not resolve my problem, I painstakingly re-formatted and

re-installed Win XP. The same problem returned. Please note that this is not due to a virus,

adware or other nasty. Also note that it is not due to a corrupt .AVI file. The few I have

are stored on a separate disc, play good, and not accessed when the problem occurs. I tried

using a windows explorer replacement, but can't access my desktop or other programs. Hitting

the windows logo flag thing does nothing. If nothing can fix this, do you know of a Win

Explorer replacement that will let me access all programs and my desktop.
 
Chris_ said:
I think that 1GB means his total RAM..
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That's what I get for trying to help when I've got a million other things going on. :P I'd make sure that DMA is enabled on each IDE channel, and that all applicable chipset drivers are installed and functioning.
 
Anti-Trend said:
That's what I get for trying to help when I've got a million other things going on. :P I'd make sure that DMA is enabled on each IDE channel, and that all applicable chipset drivers are installed and functioning.
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Haha, AT, we all make mistakes sometimes :P
 
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