explorer.exe

Posted By: rhm | Jun 5th @ 4:22 PM
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#Jun 5th @ 4:22 PM
rhm
rhm

On my PC right now I'm watching a 796kbs H.264 in an IE page and IE is using an average of 6% CPU.  Explorer.exe is using 30% and doing what exactly?

 

Bearing in mind this is  a quad-core CPU as well. While I'd like to take this as another opportunity to bash the awefulness of the Vista shell, I would also like to know if there's any way of stopping explorer doing this.

 

Details: Vista 64 SP1 (with all the patches as per WU). No 3rd party virus or security software is installed.

#Jun 5th @ 8:05 PM
PaoloM
PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

What codec have you installed?

#Jun 5th @ 8:47 PM
ManipUni
ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

Perhaps check it out using WinInternals / Microsoft's Process Explorer. Vista redirects a lot of its "I'm going to waste your CPU" jobs to the dwm.exe process.

 

#Jun 5th @ 9:33 PM
zian
zian
Exploding heads since 1988

Get ProcessExplorer. Then, double-click on the explorer.exe process and go to the Threads tab to see what's using the CPU. You can double-click on the entries in the tab to see the call stack for each thread.

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