The ashServ.exe is the main scanning engine of avast and it isn’t unusual to see peeks in CPU usage during times of high file activity, like on and shortly after boot. Though simply opening folders shouldn’t cause that on default settings.
You don’t mention what the Sensitivity setting is of the Standard Shield (Normal is the default) is ?
What other security programs do you have installed, firewall, anti-spyware, etc. ?
Have (or did) you another AV installed in this system, if so what was it and how did you get rid of it ?
Thanks, that is very strange as I was hoping it would be something along that line as opening a folder shouldn’t do that. I have XP Pro and I open a folder and I have virtually no activity, 2 files scanned.
I have seen something like this in the forums before recently but can’t recall the topic. You could try a forum search for something like high cpu opening folders and see if that brings anything helpful.
I don’t know if this was something about the folder options and how you display the files in the folder or if it happens to be extracting the icon to display with the file in the list, but avast is supposed to allow that.
Oops my bad Pro trial. Which I’ll replace shortly.
One thing I forgot to mention also, I havent noticed the shell restarted error in event viewer before (till now)
BUT previously, when I had to kill my computer’s process, the icons on the taskbar and the desktop disappeared, and they never came back.
I had to reboot to fix it
BUT, usually when this happens (when my computer freezes, and I have to kill it, only the taskbar icons disappear, not the desktop icons). But they come back
