It came time for a reinstall on my XP box so I fired it up and was about to start copying some stuff to my backup drive before reinstalling windows. Once windows loaded my guage was reading a solid 100% CPU activity and refused to slow down (this has never happened before). It let me slowly move folders around on the desktop but would not let me open any folders. It took about 2 minutes just for the taskmanager to come up. Once it did it showed explorer.exe at 99% of the CPU. Not wanting to fight with it or burn up my CPU from overheating I just decided to skip backup and just reinstall. To nobodies surprise the reinstall went great and now it runs just fine.
Any ideas as to what this could have been?
Any ideas as to what this could have been?