Help required

[A TIN OF COMPO]

For some reason or other my computer has slowed right down. When I check the old task manager I see that explorer.exe is using 94-96% of the cpu resources. Two questions

1. Is this normal?

2. If not normal what shouldI do about it?

Your asssistance in these matters will be greatly appreciated.

[A TIN OF FEAR]

possibly, if your system is doing a defrag or virus scan or similar.

take it you've done a re-boot.?

[A TIN OF COMPO]

Yep done numerous reboots, no change. have also looked on a rew web sites that are suggesting that there is the possibility that the explorer.exe fole is a virus.

Apparently it should be running as arequired windows programme, however it can be corrupted to pass on details of usage etc to another party. The agreed suggestion is to run without explorer which is neither helpful or realistic.

I shall now on the back of another reboot explore more of the www.

[A TIN OF WOLF]

Had this a few times, think i managed to get rid of it by scanning for spyware, once that was complete ive had no further problems

[A TIN OF FEAR]

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

[excaliburhc]

http://www.lavasoft.de/

is another good one , have their free program ad-aware for about a year , handy for looking for spyware and
have you tried avg's anti virus as well , free anti virus option supposed to be one of the best ,
could be worth doing a scan , only time i have ever heard of someone system running at 90% when not is use is when it is infected ,

any problems getting an anti virus , pm me

edit by admin. please do not encourage sharing of commercial software, thanks