explorer.exe acting up

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Lately I have been trying to watch videos and such but explorer.exe seems to take up alot of my resources. like 96%. I have 1 gig of ram so I don't see what is wrong here. Any suggestions?

[neosapience]

There's a bug that can cause explorer to not read AVI files correctly. It basically makes explorer.exe go nuts.

Open regedit and head to -

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler

Delete the "Default" value which should be

{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}

Hopefully that'll do it.

[Tracer]

i will try it and let you know.

Thanks

[Tracer]

works

[neosapience]

Happy to have helped!