hello people..
got a little problem over here and I couldnt find its trace. Last night, I was using my computer as for my daily routine. reading posts and stuff. The OS really got stuck.really went slow, like I couldnt open nearly anything. CTRL+ALT+DEL showed me that IEXPLORE.EXE is taking 99% of CPU usage.

I launched system restore,it solved the problem for a while, but when I tried to access apartition in my hard drivr, it again got stuck. I launched system resotre again and opened my hard disk partitions in Internet Explorer browser(i.e. type c: in the address bar), and it showeds me the contents of C drive.

System restore feature restores the system cpu usage for a while, and let me do everything I want, but when i try to access my partitions by clciking My Computer icon, it gets stuck.

It means that I can still install and run any applications, until the computer gets stuck again. I am unable to find any traces behind all these strange happening.

I am using a Windows XP professional version on an Intel celeron machine.

Any suggestions and recomendations from you people.
Thank you
ommy