explorer.exe runs wild...

On an HP HDX 16 laptop Vista 64 Ultimate...

Occasionally, I notice a slowdown in things... Stuff has trouble opening,
etc. Often right after startup. I go into taskmanager to see what's
running, and explorer.exe is running at ~40-50% processor capacity (both
cores). No network activity, some occasional disk writing. What's it
doing? Is this an indication of windows search indexing going on? Keeps on
doing that for a long time (indefinitely, as far as I can tell I let it run
for a half hour, no sign of let-up) until I kill it and restart it (by new
task>explorer.exe)

Any clues on what might be causing this? I have a few other problems w/same
laptop - sidebar won't stay on after a restart, any gadgets I pull out of
the sidebar onto the desktop don't stay either.

TIA,

--moi

see this blog about how to make explorer stable

http://computerboom.blogspot.com/200...n-several.html

and scan for spyware with www.malwarebytes.org (free edition)

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"moi" <> wrote in message
news:497ce963$...
> On an HP HDX 16 laptop Vista 64 Ultimate...
>
> Occasionally, I notice a slowdown in things... Stuff has trouble opening,
> etc. Often right after startup. I go into taskmanager to see what's
> running, and explorer.exe is running at ~40-50% processor capacity (both
> cores). No network activity, some occasional disk writing. What's it
> doing? Is this an indication of windows search indexing going on? Keeps
> on doing that for a long time (indefinitely, as far as I can tell I let it
> run for a half hour, no sign of let-up) until I kill it and restart it (by
> new task>explorer.exe)
>
> Any clues on what might be causing this? I have a few other problems
> w/same laptop - sidebar won't stay on after a restart, any gadgets I pull
> out of the sidebar onto the desktop don't stay either.
>
> TIA,
>
> --moi
>