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100% Cpu Utilization



Hey everyone I just wanted to post this because some seem to still run into this problem when using large media files. It seems Windows XP has a problem with the large media files when they are right clicked. The full article is here:

http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?i...ht=Right+Click
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Method 1

Turn off the transition effects for menus and ToolTips. To do this, follow these steps:
Click Start, and then click Control Panel.

In Control Panel, double-click Display.

In the Display Properties dialog box, click the Appearance tab.

On the Appearance tab, click Effects.

In the Effects dialog box, click to clear the Use the following transition effect for menus and tooltips check box, and then click OK two times.

Ripped from the article at neowin.
mmonnin
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Right click on desktop also will get you to the Display panal.

One other thing I have found out about marge movie files, when they are in one folder and bitrate, size, resolusion and several other details are made to show up in detail view of the folder, that takes up 100% of CPU cycles when trying to read the data from the files.
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Black Hawk
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AFAIK, another way around the bug is to left click the file first before right clicking it.
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I have found that it's not just large media files. Right clicking just about any large file in XP can sometimes cause explorer to start chewing up the CPU to 100%. You would think SP1 would have fixed such a simple bug.

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I've never had that problem.

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You've probably never run XP on a 350Mhz K6-2 either. I notice it alot on that machine, a little less on my 400Mhz PII, and rarely on my PIV 1.3.

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FoldingAddict said
You've probably never run XP on a 350Mhz K6-2 either. I notice it alot on that machine, a little less on my 400Mhz PII, and rarely on my PIV 1.3.

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omg, can the k6-2 350mhz handle well XP? a little under the mini-specs for WinXP.
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