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explorer.exe eating all CPU, how to to detect culprit?
Windows 7 64bit.
I am using ProcessExplorer from Sysinternals, and it says, that the offending call is
ntdll.dll!RtlValidateHeap+0x170
however, the call stack towards the entry is always ...
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Windows 7: Explorer.exe crashes on boot & manual; faulting module Norton 360 dll, Norton says not their issue, MS/OS issue…? [closed]
On boot into Windows 7 I get good login but no explorer.exe start. hence no desktop no GUI generally. I can start task manager with ctrl-alt-del and run programs from there, including cmd.exe, ...
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Windows 7 Explorer constantly tries to log in to Shared location using invalid credentials
When I navigate to \\SOMESERVER\SharedFolder Windows 7 'thinks' several seconds, then Enter Network Password dialog appears.
Problem: administrators of SOMESERVER claim that multiple (hundreds) ...
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How to really shutdown MS SQL SERVER? Or is my Windows Explorer messed up?
My questions seem to be unrelated BUT Windows Explorer might be causing the problem I see when I use SQL Management Studio (Windows 7 64-bit).
a. Recently, since 2 weeks or so ago, my Windows ...
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See network computer description in Explorer
When viewing the list of network computers in Windows Explorer on a Win 7 machine there appears to be no way of readily seeing the description field, which makes that pretty well useless. I believe ...
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File Explorer in Windows 7 Freezes [closed]
Sometimes in Windows 7 file explorer freezes upon right-clicking a file or folder. I understand this is a 3rd party software fault. Is this really so?
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How to diagnose a hang when creating a new folder in explorer.exe
I have been having some issues with explorer.exe hanging when I create a new folder.
If I use Analyse Wait Chain in the Resource Monitor it says "One or more threads of explorer.exe are waiting to ...
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Windows7: No disk usage in status bar? [closed]
I am trying out Windows 7 RC, and one thing annoys me a bit. In windows XP (Can't remember how it was in Vista...) when browsing folders I could see how much free space I had on the disk in the status ...
