IE running in background of windows 10

[SM-G950U]

Help me please, whenever I am doing anything after about 5 to 10 minutes IE (Internet explorer) just decides, yeah i'm gonna start, it eats up 20% or so of my CPU usage and slows everything, even the most basic tasks! (watching YT, Internet browsing etc) I cant understand this for 2 reasons, 1. my CPU and the rest of my computer is pretty powerful, i5-6400, a gtx 960, 8gb o ram, and as i am posing this it just happened again. Many times it will open 2 or 3 copies, along with resisting trying to end its task. I just included a screen shot, idk why. Oh and there it just did it again, get over it i use opera. but thats not the point.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated, 

Eli.  

[crowy]

Sounds like Virus/Malware, best do a full system scan

[SM-G950U]

hey thanks for the help,

i tried that with malwarebytes, avast, and windows defender.

[SM-G950U]

anything else?

[GalacticRuler]

13 minutes ago, Eli3777 said:

anything else?

You have a horrid virus on your computer. It's called Internet Explorer.

[crowy]

might be some form of corruption, go a sfc /scannow

(frankly it shouldn't be using 4GB of RAM unless you have something SERIOUS going on in it, like 40 tabs+)

[tarfeef101]

if you don't need IE, uninstall it. In programs and features, there is an option called turn system features on and off (or something like that). you can uninstall IE there

[Simon771]

Close IE, and open Chrome/Firefox/Opera/Safari/Edge, and do the same daily taks you are usually doing and see if the same happens with those browser. If you don't get the same problem, just stop using IE.

Otherwise there is some other bug with your PC

[SM-G950U]

9 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

Close IE, and open Chrome/Firefox/Opera/Safari/Edge, and do the same daily taks you are usually doing and see if the same happens with those browser. If you don't get the same problem, just stop using IE.

Otherwise there is some other bug with your PC

i dont use ie, ever... i dont think i have ever opened it

[SM-G950U]

16 minutes ago, tarfeef101 said:

if you don't need IE, uninstall it. In programs and features, there is an option called turn system features on and off (or something like that). you can uninstall IE there

that seems to have worked

 

[tarfeef101]

19 minutes ago, Eli3777 said:

that seems to have worked

 

Great!

[SM-G950U]

oh... now none of my shortcuts have icons anymore

 

could this be related, it happened right after that restart when i disabled ie 

 

[SM-G950U]

thats bad

[SM-G950U]

****! its back, i had uninstalled it but now even though its UNINSTALLED! its still coming back 

[demonix00]

Nuke hard drive from orbit

 

Reinstall windows

 

Profit.

[SM-G950U]

1 hour ago, demonix00 said:

Nuke hard drive from orbit

 

Reinstall windows

 

Profit.

yeah i know i should but i dont want to loose files