Hi, I have a laptop with Windows 10 installed. I access it normally with remote desktop. I noticed that the explorer.exe process uses about 20-50% cpu all the time.
If I restart it solves itself, but then when I work on it after a while it does it again
Can you help me understand why?
Looking at the screenshot of your task manager you can see...
...oh, wait.. no screenshot...
please post appropriate screenshots with columns of interest organised high to low by clicking on the appropriate column header
Please also..
a. check the disk(s) - Hard disk Sentinel- and post a screenshot.
b. if ok, run
chkdsk c: /scan from an admin command prompt and advise if that passes.
Repeat for any other disks or partitions with drive letters.
Thanks.
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no problem on chkdsk disks.
Thanks. Nothing else seems to be involved as you said. Your desktop is relatively clear.
See from around post #14:
[SOLVED] - High cpu usage on windows explorer | Tom's Hardware Forum
and e.g. 1,2,3,7 here:
Fix: Windows Explorer High CPU Usage [9 Tested Solutions]
I tried almost everything from those two threads. I also did scf /scannow. But the problem remained.
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I forgot... sfc found no errors
Hello
I think the problem you have is Windows indexing files and the Windows search. The combination of the two can cause problems with hard drives and data that have not been optimized.
Remove indexing from files you dont want to be indexed.
Rebuild the index cache afterwards.
Turn off Windows indexing.
Turn off Windows search in the services.
That should do it
There's no sign of indexing running.. whilst it's worth checking for an service usage, rather than arbitrarily intervening as you suggest, @einstein1969 could simply look at Indexing Options and check that indexing is shown as complete.
If so, indexing will indeed be doing nothing.
And suggesting disabling a service without clear justification - can't be justified.
Sometimes if a file system is damaged in some way, indexing can use excessive resources- but not explorer.exe alone. However, we've already checked that, so it would seem unlikely.
The only reason i mention indexing is from the users previous files and inheritance of indexing which is not mentioned.
As the User has not mentioned any previous use of files, i only assume the original properties of files have not been cleaned or organized prior to entering his current machine.
If so, any old files from other hard drives or 2nd drives, with old inheritance of indexing which has not been removed will cause problems with a machine which has the indexing turned off.
File Explorer is top notch when its running right.
Even on Windows 8.1 in 2023
I had already reduced the "windows search" files to the bare bones.Hello
I think the problem you have is Windows indexing files and the Windows search. The combination of the two can cause problems with hard drives and data that have not been optimized.
Remove indexing from files you dont want to be indexed.
Rebuild the index cache afterwards.
Turn off Windows indexing.
Turn off Windows search in the services.
That should do it
But I'll try again. How should I do it, can you guide me?
How is this done? "Remove indexing from files you don't want to be indexed."
I don't understand how to do this either. Rebuild the index cache afterwards.
I don't know how to do this: Turn off Windows indexing.
This I know how to do: Turn off Windows search in the services.
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I'm like this now . and explorer go to 50% usage and remain for ever
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