Raffles Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 Recently I've noticed that when I right click on the downloading torrent and choose Open Containing Folder, an extra explorer.exe process appears and it uses 99% of the CPU. Kill it and everything is fine (nothing happens to the taskbar and the other explorer process is not restarted). It seems to happen only with the torrent I'm currently downloading and I'm only downloading a few of the files in it at a time.I have no antivirus so that's not messing it up, no Zone Alarm, in fact, nothing running except utorrent, thunderbird, firefox and winamp. I'm running XP Pro, 2.4GHz P4, 384MB DDR, plenty of disk space left. VLC is the program the files I'm downloading are registered to open with by default.Any help is very much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 If windows is trying to generate thumbnails, it will more than likely fail on incomplete files, explaining the maxing out of the CPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raffles Posted January 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 The funny thing is this happens only with the Open Containing Folder route. If I open explorer normally (Win+E) and navigate to the folder containing the files, this doesn't happen (but you're right in that it's in thumbnail mode, which I hate because creating thumbnails from the first frame of a video is a bit pointless). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 You can always disable the creation of thumbs.db in Tools > Folder Options > View > Do not cache thumbnails from any Explorer window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raffles Posted January 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 I had that disabled already, so I don't think it's that. It still creates the thumbnails on the fly. Any idea how to disable that altogether? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 Start -> Run -> regsvr32 /u shmedia.dllStart -> Run -> regsvr32 /u shimgvw.dllIf you ever need to undo that, just remove the /u from the command. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raffles Posted January 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 Excellent, thanks very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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