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sausje
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Posted: Fri, 16th Sep 2011 12:45 Post subject: Explorer.exe wtf?!

So i was doing a checkdisk to see if 1 of my hdd's is fucking up and i noticed my ram that was in use was goddamn high.
So i open taskmanager to find out that explorer.exe took almost 7GB on ram Neutral

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Wtf is up with that? Neutral

And no, its not a virus, im virus free ^_^

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VGAdeadcafe

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Posted: Sun, 18th Sep 2011 16:55 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Memory leak ? Start disabling shit.

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human_steel

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Posted: Sun, 18th Sep 2011 16:57 Post subject:

VGAdeadcafe wrote:

Start disabling shit.

Yeah, start with the System Idle process since it takes up most of the CPU time. Cool Face

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Posted: Sun, 18th Sep 2011 16:58 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

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dingo_d
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Posted: Sun, 18th Sep 2011 17:50 Post subject:

Malware? scan your PC with everything you've got Very Happy

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shole

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Posted: Sun, 18th Sep 2011 21:18 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

i'm thinking it's probably some borked shell extension http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html disable any third party stuff you don't need

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sausje
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Posted: Sun, 18th Sep 2011 22:43 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Lol so far off all of you, this only happend during diskcheck, was instant gone after. Totally forgot about this topic ^^ Proud member of Frustrated Association of International Losers Failing Against the Gifted and Superior (F.A.I.L.F.A.G.S)

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