Posted by Tim on 10/18/05 18:25

Thanks Fred, that's exactly whats happening. I'm using XP and it is
explorer thats eating up the juice.
I will follow your advice but do I do it when the cpu is going bananas
or now when everything is normal?
Thanks for your help.
Tim


On 18 Oct 2005 14:33:19 GMT, "fred-bloggs"
<fred-bloggs@hahahotmail.com> wrote:

>Tim <> wrote in news:qpm9l1hbg79g44p52lj5k9561cmc27kods@4ax.com:
>
>> I apologise if this subject has been aired here before but I am new
>> here.
>> I have been dwl video music files on WinMX for a while and every so
>> often I get one that sends my CPU crazy. Basically as soon as I try to
>> do anything with the file the CPU runs at 100% so that everything else
>> just runs at a snails pace. The only way I have found to deal with the
>> problem is to delete the file. Having spend a few hours dwl the file
>> that is a bit drastic but seems to be the only way out.
>> Can anyone tell me what is happening. Is it some sort of trojan/virus
>> or something? If so is there a way of detecting such files before you
>> dwl?
>> TIA for any information or help.
>
>XP? If you find that Explorer is the process taking 100% CPU try
>
>Start
>Run...
>regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll
>OK

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