Help! Strange sounds and iexplore.exe*32 out the wazoo!

102511 · 10-13-2009, 02:28 PM

Let me start by saying Im not a computer guy. My computer is doing that thing where it plays clips of sounds randomly. I did a search on it and found this sight. The posts I have read dont seem to apply. I think the sounds are coming from iexplore. I only have 1 explorer window open and my task manager has 4 listed. I have seen 20 at one time. They are eating up memory. between 49,000 and 69,000k for 2 of them and the rest are between 1,000 and 7,000k. I have run norton 360 through its paces and it found 1 cookie. It fixed the cookie but nothing else. My computer is only 4 months old so I dont think I broke it yet. So basically I have 2 questions.

1-What is it?
2-How do I fix it?

Thanks.
PS. Im not a computer guy. Please use small words.

102511 · 10-13-2009, 02:47 PM

Forgot to say Im running vista. Also The sounds are coming from the ghost explorers. I played with the volume mixer and muted the internet explorer. There are now 17 iexplorer.exe files running according to the task manager. I only have the one window open. Also every now and then a little box thing pops up and says "this tab has been recovered" but its not pointing at anything.

10-13-2009, 02:28 PM	#1 (permalink)
102511 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 3 OS: vista	*Help! Strange sounds and iexplore.exe32 out the wazoo!** Let me start by saying Im not a computer guy. My computer is doing that thing where it plays clips of sounds randomly. I did a search on it and found this sight. The posts I have read dont seem to apply. I think the sounds are coming from iexplore. I only have 1 explorer window open and my task manager has 4 listed. I have seen 20 at one time. They are eating up memory. between 49,000 and 69,000k for 2 of them and the rest are between 1,000 and 7,000k. I have run norton 360 through its paces and it found 1 cookie. It fixed the cookie but nothing else. My computer is only 4 months old so I dont think I broke it yet. So basically I have 2 questions. 1-What is it? 2-How do I fix it? Thanks. PS. Im not a computer guy. Please use small words.

10-13-2009, 02:47 PM	#2 (permalink)
102511 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 3 OS: vista	*Re: Help! Strange sounds and iexplore.exe32 out the wazoo!** Forgot to say Im running vista. Also The sounds are coming from the ghost explorers. I played with the volume mixer and muted the internet explorer. There are now 17 iexplorer.exe files running according to the task manager. I only have the one window open. Also every now and then a little box thing pops up and says "this tab has been recovered" but its not pointing at anything.