Last week I finally upgraded my desktop to windows 8.1. Since that time I have noticed that Explorer.exe will often just ramp up to 25-30% cpu utilization and just stay there. It never goes back down.

Windows Explorer is a file management utility in Windows operating systems. It keeps running in the background as a part of Windows Process. You can see it in the Task Manager. Usually, it takes up a ...

I've been experiencing this since RTM in November. Every once in a while my Vista Ultimate runs up to 100% CPU, for as long as I can stand to watch it before I log off or reboot or yank the power cord ...

It took over a month but Microsoft has now confirmed what some Windows 11 users have already known since May's Patch Tuesday update—there's a File Explorer bug that is causing unusually high CPU ...