I've looked at Process Explorer when the problem has been occurring, and if
I'm remembering correctly, the line that actually showed explorer.exe as the
running image was the one running away. But I don't remember exactly. I
will look next time the problem occurs.

"Gerry" wrote:

> Explorer.exe is a Parent. You need to discover which child is
> misbehaving. In Process Explorer click on the plus + sign before
> explorer.exe. You will see the children inst immediately beneath
> explorrer.exe. Currently there are 13 children on my computer. Right
> click on the problematic child process abd let us know the Command line
> on the Image tab.
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> Hope this helps.
>
> Gerry
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> dacoup wrote:
> > My computer frequently gets into a situation where a process locks up
> > the system by running away with the CPU. The process usually shows
> > up in Task Manager running explorer.exe, though sometimes it's
> > iexplore.exe or the login program.
> >
> > When this happens I can't kill the process with Task Manager or
> > Process Explorer. It's also not possible to logout at this point.
> > The only solution is to do a hard power down.
> >
> > There doesn't seem to be any particular pattern to what triggers the
> > runaway process, though the situation seems to occur frequently
> > during user login. Sometimes we never get past the screen where we
> > click on the user name to start the login.
> >
> > Any ideas?
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