high CPU usage when moving mouse over desktop

[AlexUP]

Hello, im having a little problem with my mouse and CPU usage. Basically, whenever i move my mouse on my desktop, my CPU usage goes up to 30%! It only happens when i move my mouse around desktop. If i move it over other tabs for example Chrome, discord, then the CPU usage is normal (around 5%). The process is explorer.exe that goes high up. Scanned my PC several times with different antiviruses, no viruses found.

[SavageNeo]

you might have a bug or malware.

ty to download malware bytes and do a full scan

[AlexUP]

2 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

you might have a bug or malware.

ty to download malware bytes and do a full scan

Thats what i did and mentioned. No malware detected, full scanned with atleast 3 different antivirus programs.

[Djole123]

10 minutes ago, AlexUP said:

Hello, im having a little problem with my mouse and CPU usage. Basically, whenever i move my mouse on my desktop, my CPU usage goes up to 30%! It only happens when i move my mouse around desktop. If i move it over other tabs for example Chrome, discord, then the CPU usage is normal (around 5%). The process is explorer.exe that goes high up. Scanned my PC several times with different antiviruses, no viruses found.

What are the specs of your PC?

 

This behaviour does tend to happen on less powerful hardware.

[AlexUP]

2 minutes ago, Djole123 said:

What are the specs of your PC?

 

This behaviour does tend to happen on less powerful hardware.

I3-8350K

GTX 1660 Super

8GB ram

Win 10

[RageTester]

I believe explorer.exe is doing something else at the same time, because my rather old laptop doesn't get any use from mouse movement alone...

Maybe file indexing, copying something...

Moving mouse over fullscreen video is where all hell breaks loose.

[AlexUP]

3 minutes ago, RageTester said:

I believe explorer.exe is doing something else at the same time, because my rather old laptop doesn't get any use from mouse movement alone...

Maybe file indexing, copying something...

Moving mouse over fullscreen video is where all hell breaks loose.

Yeah, thats weird. Do you have any idea what could cause that issue? Or where should i look to find out whats happening. Any possible fixes maybe. I have also tried uninstalling my mouse from device manager, and then restarting computer, but that didn't do anything.

[RageTester]

Maybe your desktop is full of large size files? Try only having shortcuts...

[RageTester]

We don't spend too much time on our desktops, so I don't see this as a huge problem, you can use a 3rd party file explorer and kill explorer.exe completely if you want to mess around a bit.

 

Dual boot or clean install another OS is surely gonna fix it, if it's a well hidden virus or corrupted system files to blame.

[AlexUP]

26 minutes ago, RageTester said:

We don't spend too much time on our desktops, so I don't see this as a huge problem, you can use a 3rd party file explorer and kill explorer.exe completely if you want to mess around a bit.

 

Dual boot or clean install another OS is surely gonna fix it, if it's a well hidden virus or corrupted system files to blame.

Yeah, not a huge problem, but its just waste of resource, which i don't like. Also i feel like the issue affects my FPS in games where i have to move my mouse around. But thanks, ill check out that third party software later today.