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Explorer.exe eats up memory?

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Opened Skyrim a few minutes ago, got not a crash to desktop but taken to the desktop screen and that same (or similar) message appeared. 8 GB of memory should be more than enough, I'd presume even if I had 32 or more GB (up to 192) it'd still happen.

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The last case wasn't an external, nor any sort of removable drive. Weather the cable is faulty or not I'd doubt. I think I ran a error check of internal 2 TB drive and got the same message, seems when I reformatted last week something happened.

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Maybe your best bet would be either a new clean install. (Wipe drives and start again) or place one of your drives in a diffrent pc and check to see if you get the same error. If you don't then its your pc if you do get the error its the drive.

Connor Freebairn - ConnorFreebairn@newman.cumbria.sch.uk
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My point is that Windows is pretty much impossible to use if you disable explorer.exe 

 

How is that a stupid point? He might have closed explorer.exe not knowing what it was, and been very worried.

 

Don't give me crap because I type English in a way that you don't understand. I didn't mean that windows would physically break. 

You can use CMD without Explorer.

 

 

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I presume I'd have to uninstall some programs, as I'd be cleaning the registry. Since I have a SSD with the OS on it, would I just be able to stick the Windows 7 disc in reinstall, download the Windows updates, and reinstall (some) of the programs again (steam,firefox, etc) - though those are stored on the HDD.

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