AMD C50 High CPU Usage

[justkian]

I have an acer with amd 722 with C50 processor (1.0 Ghz) OS win 7. when opening windows explorer, cpu usage increases dramatically (application "core temp" also shows the cpu temperature is rising fast) so I have to close the explorer.exe from the task manager, then open up explorer.exe again and things get back to normal. How do I solve it? Thank you

[axeman]

My wife has this same laptop. The C-50 is not a powerful CPU. It is in the same category as the Atom, so it is not uncommon to see a lot of CPU usage doing very mundane tasks. Put this in perspective, a Core 2 Duo or Athlon X2 that came out 6 years ago is much, much faster. You can try uninstalling everything that isn't absolutely necessary and turning off Aero for a start, that might help, but I doubt there is anything seriously wrong with your system. That said, it wouldn't hurt to run a scan with Malwarebytes. Lots of malware attaches itself into explorer.exe, and can cause lots of weird issues, because making well behaved applications is not a malware writer's goal.

[Suhidu]

I had a much more powerful C2D-based machine that would frequently get one core bogged down by explorer.exe when I opened explorer windows (i.e., file folder windows), but not every time either .

I think it was fixed by deleting an old MSN web shortcut that was in "My Computer"("Computer" on Vista+). So, you could try deleting the web shortcuts there.