Can i delete avi files?

[PeteGetz]

Hello,
my explorer.exe is causing my cpu to run on 100%, when I close the Explorer in the task mgr, the cpu goes down dramatically.
Please advise,
Pete

 

[Emperus]

Install some good antivirus/anti-spyware application and check your system for any virus and/or spyware.. Keep your system and device drivers up to date..

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Have you run both a virus scan and a Malwarebytes scan? What are your system specs?

 

[Pyree]

Is the "Can i delete avi files? " related to your 100% cpu usage? If so then definity delete the avi file that keep on crashing your explorer.exe when you try to open it. The explorer.exe trys to read the info eg. resolution, size, bitrate etc on an broken avi file will cause that problem. There is no fixing but to get that avi again from another source.

 

[PeteGetz]

Emperus,Anort3and Pyree, thanks for the responses.
I have ran Mcafee, Registry Clean up, Disk Cleanup, Removed .avi files, quite a lot of .avi files would not allow me to remove them, emptied recycle bin, rebooted several times, ran file defrag and registry defrag.
It seems like some file in the Explorer.exe is causing this. As soon as I remove Explorer.exe the cpu goes back to 10, 20 % performance. Explorer.exe is using 80 to 90 % of cpu. Is there a tool to find the file that is causing it? I suspect it is a malware and probably is in the registry. This is a desktop and I have a Vista Premium Home addition with 2 Gig Ram, hard drive 133gb free of 232gb, 1300 Atheon Graphic card.

 

[jimmysmitty]

McAffe sucks.

Get these, install them and run them. Also get rid of McAffe.

www.malwarebytes.org

http://www.superantispyware.com/

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security_essentials/default.aspx

All free and all actually find and remove threats unlike McAffe.

 

[Daplinksta]

If your running win 7 I have had your problem and solved it. Plz advise on your OS.

 

[PeteGetz]

Daplinsta, I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit, Pentium 4, 2.8 Gig cpu,

Now "system idle process" and Explorer.exe takes turn in hogging the cpu resources.

 

[jimmysmitty]

Um System Idle Process is when your CPU is idle. Its not using any of the CPU at all just a process that Task Manager uses to show the level of idle.