Well, my IExplorer (Windows Explorer) just crashed as I was "un-hiding" the corrupted files. I'm gonna try that search - sounds like it should work.

Thanks a bunch.




BTW, Sometimes when my computer starts lagging big time, I'll open up the Task Manager and CPU Usage will be at 100% - all by svchost.exe. There are anywhere from 2 to 5 instances of the program running, but only one will be at full load. I'll "End task" that instance and everything will return back to normal.

It's just weird because I'm on a 2.2 P4 so nothing really lags my computer... except svchost.exe. What the heck is that? And should I not manually shut it down?

 

Damn dude...that sucks 'cause it's a pretty big file...just eating up your HDD space. Are these all unfinished downloads? If they are, then I'd suspect that Direct Connect is maybe doing something. Is there some sort of download manager? If so, check it out and make sure it's not trying to resume any downloads or anything...

If that isn't it, then I think the next most likely thing is that there's a temp of the file(s) somewhere on your system. In that event, deleting the backup will probably solve the problem.

Beyond that, I don't have any ideas...sorry man.

 

svchost is the host process for services that run from DLLs. Viruses can come as DLLs. I'd wager you have a virus. The svchost that you shut down is the instance that's hosting the virus.

Update your virus data files and run a full scan. I'll bet a virus is found.

 

Is this the first problem the Local Off-Topic Computer Guru can not solve?!?

But seriously, thanks for the help, the search thingy should work. I uninstalled Direct Connect (which did have a 'resume download' feature) about 5 months ago, but only after deleting the file transfers and partial download files from within Direct Connect itself. The uninstall wasn't so supposed to touch downloaded files so that's blah, but either way, it should've deleted the files when I told it to.




I have plenty of HD space (about 500gigs ), so it's no big deal - it's just the fact that I can't do what I want do on my computer.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by cyber_x
svchost is the host process for services that run from DLLs.

 

Wow...500 GB is a lot...haha, no concerns about storage space then! I'm typing this on my work computer with 6 GB so I'm rather jealous...

Anyway, I think the most likely culprit here is the temp file thing. You might also want to check if all the Direct Connect install directories were actually removed by the uninstaller. Sometimes uninstallers play it safe, and rather than remove all install directories and risk deleting user downloads, they leave the downloads and temp directories behind. If the problem is indeed temp backup files, then they should be in either the Direct Connect download directories or your Internet Explorer temp directories. Depending on the OS, temp files might also be stored under your username in Cocuments and Settings. The hard part is to guess at the partial name and find the backup...try various permutations of the file name and see what happens. Good luck bro...

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by alexf20c

 

The tool is scanning my files right now... It's gonna take awhile.

 

Here is what worked for me. The problem was a corrupt entry into the NTFS. START>RUN>CMD

You now need to rename the file to a very short file name using a wildcard. lets assume the name of your movie is areallylongnamewithsomenumbers12345.avi

cd path to the file
rename a*.avi short.avi

This will have renamed the file. Now you should be able to delete it using wild cards:

del *.avi

This is easier when you make the files you need to delete the only files in the directory.

I have left out a lot of steps and I am making some assumptions about how your system is setup. Please try this and let me know. This works every time for clients.

Let me know.

 

If the files in the directory are the only ones you want to delete then you should be able to skip the rename part and just do a delete with a wildcard.

del *.*

That will wipe out everything in the directory.