gkeizer;348372 Wrote:
I've been trying to nail down a high CPU usage problem by
exploreer.exe's
SHLWAPI.dll for weeks, but haven't succeeded. Sometimes I can Suspend
in
"Process Explorer," then Resume and it'll drop off; other times that
doesn't
work. Sometimes a restart will solve the problem, other times it
won't. I
can't see a pattern. I'm talking 35-40% CPU (Core 2 Duo 2.13GHz)
usage. No
matter how long I let it live, it won't go away, so it's not connected
with
PreFetch or indexing or anything else I can think of. Any ideas? Any
help?
(Nothing's popped on Knowledgebase, at least on a search of 'Vista
SHLWAPI.dll cpu'; ditto on the Vista threads.) Thanks.

It's nice to see just how old this problem is and that it still hasn't
been fixed. :- SHLWAPI.dll only returns 3 results on the knowledgebase
and none of them are related. : /

I've seen some other posts that recommended deleting your user account
and transferring your data to a new user. This worked for about a week
for me. Unfortunately, the bad behavior has returned. Everytime I log in
I need to kill explorer.exe and re-launch it. What's SHLWAPI.dll used
for anyway? Can I just unregister it or something so explorer doesn't
attach it?


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bobpaul