Hi all, once in a while I would notice a serious slowdown and would check my task manager and see that my explorer.exe is running at 98% - 100%?!?! My current specs are Pentium 4-2.8Ghz @ 800Mhz FSB with 2Gigs of Dual RAM @ 800Mhz. I would notice this when I would use my Newsreader while viewing videos and streamed video of news. Is there a known flow in XP or a known memory leak or something?? I also have SP2 installed.. Just curious if anyone has had a similar problem?? Thanks in advance for any and all of your help/input..

Same problem no answer I'm afraid.
I'm on SP2 as well.

I've heard alot of people are having problems like that with SP2, maybe google could help you fix it or something
I reformated and then installed SP2, maybe for the people who had SP1 and then install SP2 over it have that problem, I dunno, good luck.

i haven't had that problem ... one thing i have noticed (this could be the updated audigy 2 drivers for my platinum as well) is that when playing music and say, moving a large file from one drive to another, i experience pops and crackles when i move the mouse around on the screen. not sure what causes this, but it didn't used to do that.

Thanks guys for your replies.. Well, I did do a fresh install with SP2 slipstreamed and it just started happening. It also happens when I do move files to and from 1 partition to another when I am using the Media player as well.. After a reboot, everything is fine.. Weird, just weird..

well, explorer.exe is the windows shell and as we all know, microsoft just loves to abuse people's computers once in a while. as for the videos, this may be normal if you use IE as your browser to watch them (streaming media required alota cpu power)