100% CPU Usage

Ok, my explorer.exe is using 100% of my cpu about 1 minute after I boot my computer.  Ive tried scanning with Spybot but no luck.  Right now my temp fix is to stop explorer and then start it again as a new task. 

Any advice would be appreciated.

>>1
1. Stop using Internet Explorer.
2. Get rid of all your system tray bullshit.
3. Make sure your optical drives (CD, DVD) aren't spinning, the fuckers.
4. Use SysInternals' Autoruns to see what browser objects you have, get rid of all the shit that doesn't come with Explorer (i.e. what's not Microsoft Corporation).
5. Check that you're not running strange (as in "stupid") CD burning, imageing, or virtualizing software.
6. Reinstall the latest Service Pack or something might fix it.

explorer isn't internet explorer....
are you sure that's explorer? you should check other processus, and check your win.ini to see what's loading at startup
also check your regiter.

>>3
explorer isn't internet explorer....
Never said so... just stop using MSIE.

are you sure that's explorer? you should check other processus, and check your win.ini to see what's loading at startup
WIN.INI is seldom used anymore. Check your registry global and user Run and RunServices keys, the shell run key (forgot what it was), autoload services in services.msc, browser helper objects, etc.

exploer....aint that the thing that if you end it brings up the "computer will shut down in so and so seconts" thing?

it scared the shit out of me the first time i was like "oh shit! my compy is gonna blow up!!!!1111one"

>>5

no..............explorer is basicly all the shit on your desktop you can click on, in short, your desktop. kill it. everything dissapears cept your wallpaper.

>>5
No. Explorer is the GUI shell that comes with Windows. If you Linux people think Explorer.exe is all there is to Win32, that explains why you hate it, but also proves you're quite ignorant about it.

>>7
If you think >>5 is a "Linux person" you're a tard.

Incidentally about this thing you seem to have with "Linux people" being ignorant of winders. You should realise that most Linux users have had extensive experience with winders before switching, so it's not a valid claim.

>>8
If extensive experience means having a decent understanding of the NT architecture, using the command line, using/knowing about hardlinks and NTFS junctions, messing with services in the registry, hand editing your file associations and methods, scripting and compiling (and possibly using some Win32 API calls), knowing about Unicode and locale issues, being able to configure a more complex network with it, knowing how to fix things and do basic maintenance to the registry and NTFS, and such things, then I very much respect their opinion on other OSes they know vs. Windows NT.

>>9
Pretty much, yeah.

>>10
Oh then you are alright. I thought you were one of the many Linux users who tried Windows at a friends', saw the "My Documents" folder and thought it was gay and useless. Well, that IS gay and useless, just wanted to point out that's just 5% of Windows and if I like Windows NT it's not exactly because of that.

lol "tried windows at a friend's"

Let me break it to you guy, "linux people" know more about windows than you do as a rule. The average "linux person" networks a bunch of different systems. Usually you get into linux/unix/BSD because it's what runs on the bizarre-ass hardware you're playing with. I got into NetBSD because it was either I use that for my handheld PC or I use Windows CE. Not much of a choice to make there, let me tell you. A million applications, or a handful?

When someone on this board is like "get Ubuntu" they're trolling. You need to lurk on /b/ until you can understand the art.