From: Gary Wiltshire 

I've noticed the 100% thing, for a fraction of a second, when I hit a skip
on an audio CD.

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:12:32 -0700, Ellen K.
 wrote:

>Here are two things I've experienced on W2K at work:
>
>1.  If you open a DOS program, the CPU zooms up to 100% (ergo slowing
>everything else down) until you close it.    I think this one is pretty
>well known.   You can see it for yourself by opening edit from the
>command line.
>
>2.  If you had a file that somehow got "lost", trying to open it will
>freeze the app you're trying to open it with and somehow seems to screw
>up other stuff at the same time so you have to reboot.   I had this at
>work recently with a Word doc that WAS on my desktop.   After several
>reboots I first thought Word was corrupted, then I decided to try
>removing the "lost" file from the recent (or whatever it's called)
>folder and rebooting again.  That actually worked but periodically I'm
>still getting an error message.
>
>On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 23:48:44 -0400, "Bodi"
 wrote
>in message :
>
>>Some file I had in My Documents completely screwed up XP Pro. Opening the
>>folder resulted in a 2 minute plus wait for it to open, with the disk
>>activity light on. Task manager shows nothing extremely odd, explorer taking
>>about 5% of the cpu and claiming a varying but not idiotic (compared to the
>>normal idiocy) amount of memory. Everything else is sloooooooow, changing
>>window focus takes a minute or so and redrawing a window takes 5-10 seconds.
>>Opening a subfolder in My Docs... never did open after 10 minutes.  The
>>system worked fine until I tried to open My Docs, but never really recovered
>>afterwards without a reboot.
>>I had nothing vital in My Docs so I vaped the whole folder and all is well
>>now.
>>MS thinks it was something that the thumbnail generator was choking on but
>>all I had was the MS sample pix, some .txt logfile excerpts, and a zip file
>>(quicktime installer) but I don't think anything was new.
>>Is there some curse out on me that XP will continue to find odd ways to
>>screw up here?
>>Having installed a retail copy of XP meant I could use MS support and the
>>guy was actually very helpful.

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