I experience this issue on one PC with RC installed and on another one with RTM.
Whenever I enter a special folder with 5 or 6 wave-files, explorer.exe uses 100% cpu-power and it's memory usage goes up to 2 gigs.
It takes a long time to get to the taskmanager and kill the process.
I've found some forum-posts of users who experience the same issue on Vista and Win 7 but never an answer.
And please fill in your systems specs as detailed as possible.
I have PC. It's block-shaped and has a power-button.
j/k I doubt specs matter that much because it is happening on a PC and on my Thinkpad T61.
I'll post the log when I'm at home.
Thanks for the help in advance.
EDIT: I just discovered my PC also has a reset-button.
I had to laugh at your "system specs" response
Does the same symptom happen in safe mode? If not, MSCONFIG may be a relatively simple way to find the specific difference (between normal and safe modes) which is the cause.
There are far more sophisticated tools for this sort of thing but it's important to rule out the simpler stuff first.
Just tried safe-mode, the problem still occurs there.
explorer.exe's and dllhost.exe's CPU-usage go up to 50% each.
B####r.
Perhaps more "simple" troubleshooting is called for. What's so special about that folder and those "5 or 6 WAVs"? Do all folders with WAVs in them behave the same way, even if the WAVs are not from that group of 6?
I'm trying to understand whether it's enough for any WAV files to be present in a folder (even if there's other stuff?), or whether the symptom is specific to a certain folder and/or a certain WAV file.
I've got some new information:
I tried moving all the WAVs of that folder into another folder.
2 wave-files remained in the old folder.
I can view the new folder without any issues.
Old folder is called "Hedgehog"
New folder is called "Hedgehog2"
Now I deleted "Hedgehog" because I still have a backup of these 2 files.
The I renamed "Hedgehog2" to "Hedgehog".
When I open the folder now it goes back to 99% cpu usage of explorer.exe.
When I rename it "Hedgehog2" again, it works as expected.
There are no hidden files btw.
I have other folders containing wave-files, but only "Hedgehog" (which is the most important one b/c it contains my own stuff) makes such trouble.
That suggests a very different codepath depending on whether the folder name matches a particular string.
What created the "hedgehog" folder originally? Was it an app? It seems likely that app has sunk some sort of buggy plug-in into Explorer.
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