windows explorer runs spontaniuosly in backround killing my memory

Hi all
Is any one familiar with this phenomena??
On windows start up (windowsXP professional sp1), windows explorer exe
(explorer.exe) start's up
as well. It run's on the back ground consuming growing amount of memory.
After killing it's process through task manager task bar is immediatly
gone... but i am able to continue working with
applications that were already runing.
Any idea what's going on or how shell i handle this?
Thanks in advance
Rea

Paul
Sun Mar 20 02:15:30 CST 2005

In article <eEfvpHSLFHA.2604@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>, in the
microsoft.public.security news group, Rea Peleg <reap@afek.co.il>
says...

> Hi all
> Is any one familiar with this phenomena??
> On windows start up (windowsXP professional sp1), windows explorer exe
> (explorer.exe) start's up
> as well. It run's on the back ground

Explorer is supposed to start up, and it doesn't run in the background,
it runs in the foreground. Explorer is the Windows shell. It is what
let's you interact with Windows.

> consuming growing amount of memory.

This has nothing to do with security. You should post this to one of the
standard Windows XP groups.

> After killing it's process through task manager task bar is immediatly
> gone...

Of course the task bar is gone when you kill the task. See above. You've
killed the shell.

> but i am able to continue working with
> applications that were already runing.
> Any idea what's going on or how shell i handle this?

As above, since this isn't security related, post in one of the general
Windows XP news groups.



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'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures,
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Jim
Sun Mar 20 02:24:02 CST 2005

Jump on over to http://housecall.antivirus.com and have it check
your system for viruses (viri?)

--
Jim Carlock
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"Rea Peleg" wrote:
Hi all
Is any one familiar with this phenomena??
On windows start up (windowsXP professional sp1), windows explorer exe
(explorer.exe) start's up
as well. It run's on the back ground consuming growing amount of memory.
After killing it's process through task manager task bar is immediatly
gone... but i am able to continue working with
applications that were already runing.
Any idea what's going on or how shell i handle this?
Thanks in advance
Rea