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High CPU usage from Explorer.exe - Suspecting Dropbox and/or Onedrive shell integration at fault

I'm experiencing high CPU usage from Explorer.exe and I am using SysInternals' Process Explorer to try to diagnose the issue. Frequently I will get a CPU History graph like this (or worse, showing ...
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SysInternals Process Explorer starts but is unresponsive for a long time, spinning blue disk. Then works fine

I recently downloaded the SysInternals tools. I'm running them on Windows Server 2019. The problem I am having only seems to apply to Process Explorer. I have this problem whether I run procexp.exe or ...
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Process not showing in Process Explorer, even though it's running

Something strange is happening, I am running the game "Sheep dog 'n' wolf" via the SheepD3D.exe executable. While it is running I alt-tab and open SysInternals' Process Explorer (latest ...
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Can not run Sysinternals Process Explorer via Task scheduler (installed via winget on Win11)

I'm unable to setup the Process Explorer to run at startup via Task Scheduler. Regardless if I create the task via the Process Explorer menu 'Run at startup' or manually I am unable to make it work. I'...
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How to see the process stack in the Sysinternals Process Explorer from a .net console app?

I am trying to get deeper in the understanding how the OS stacks up the chained function calls. So I created a very simple dotnet console app, see the code below, I call the "Call()" method ...
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Process Explorer: Process Disk: Read/Write bytes not working?

I like to find out which program using mostly my SSD. On Windows 7 x64 machine in Process Explorer (opened as Administrator) double clicking on a process opens up the details of it. On the Disk and ...
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