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SirDaShadow
06-26-2004, 05:54 PM
yeah, more than usual...even when I have nothing else running...any ideas? I have AVG and ad-aware and have no rouge pop-ups or viruses...


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SirDaShadow
06-26-2004, 05:55 PM
> yeah, more than usual...even when I have nothing else
> running...any ideas? I have AVG and ad-aware and have no
> rouge pop-ups or viruses...
>
well shit, it didn't include the attachment...here

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packardmelan
06-26-2004, 06:15 PM
HoeKey, huh?

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SirDaShadow
06-26-2004, 06:31 PM
> HoeKey, huh?
>
Legit app. http://bcheck.arsware.org/hoe.php

Maybe I should explain what I'm running there...javaw is doing azureus, i have an smtp server, apache, forte agent, vmware dhcp and net helpers, dnsservice for dyndns.org, vcool a cpu cooler. Other than that, I don't see any special or rogue programs running...

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JCE3000GT
06-26-2004, 07:00 PM
Windows 2000, XP, Longhorn (Known to leak memory), or 2003 Server? Run an updated ad-aware, check your services, and look in the registry for shit that's loading--somewhere you'd have to find the problem. Unless you've got a mystery memory leak bug that needs to be reported. Try ending the process in task manager and File -> New Task (Run) explorer.exe again and watch it and see if it happends.

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maq112k2
06-26-2004, 07:36 PM
> yeah, more than usual...even when I have nothing else
> running...any ideas? I have AVG and ad-aware and have no
> rouge pop-ups or viruses...

Check all your files for validity. I found http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1086055365a thread on Annoyances.org</a> from a person who was having the same problem, but it turned it out was Explorer trying to make a thumbnail of an invalid AVI file.

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SirDaShadow
06-26-2004, 08:58 PM
> Check all your files for validity. I found a thread on
> Annoyances.org from a person who was having the same
> problem, but it turned it out was Explorer trying to make a
> thumbnail of an invalid AVI file.
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You, Sir, are a genius. As soon as I read your post I immediately went to a folder that has an avi and lo and behold explorer tripled to quadrupled its memory usage! Thank you very much!
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PS: How do you turn off thumbnails in Windows XP Pro?

PPS: Here http://www.tweakxp.com/tweak255.aspx

<P ID="signature"></P><P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by SirDaShadow on 06/26/04 04:02 PM.</FONT></P>