Windows Explorer memory increases during the night

Hi all

I had a problem with Explorer windows for 3-4 weeks.  I don't have any problems during the day when I am on my PC, but the problem starts in the night (at any time after 01:00). Particularly explorer.exe in my task manager would eat more than 250 MB! While this may not seem catastrophic in terms of severity, 250 MBs is still a lot of memory, a task must use. In the morning that exploring is more than 250 MB, I try to open the files .doc, .xls files, IE 7 browser windows just to see if the RAM would be released. However explore is constantly using over 250 MB. The only way to solve this (very inefficient way) is by typing ctrl-alt-del, ending explorer.exe, then 'restart' Explorer by clicking on "New task" in the Task Manager and typing explorer.exe. This works that explorer.exe loads again with the memory of charges and remains around 20-35 MBs all day (after 01:00 again!).

I tried troubleshooting with respect to viruses, malware, Trojans and rootkits, by contacting my AV tech. I am using Trend Micro Titanium + and the tech support agent told me to do these tests:

(1) run Malwarebytes and do a scan complete (the scan came out clean)
(2) run Trend Micro Housecall (the scan came out clean)
(3) run Trend Micro HiJackthis and send in the analysis logs (agent tech analyzed newspapers and answered in 2 days and stressed that there is nothing to 'dangerous' to worry)
(4) tool of SIC (system information Collector) and see if there are any 'suspects' process slows down explore dope

After the end of step 4, the agent tech told me there was nothing really at their end, they could do (all troubleshooting tools mentioned in steps 2-4 out literally own and didn't report any malware or suspicious processes) and recommended to contact Microsoft.

So now I'm here and want to find a way around this problem! Again the main issue is that every night (after 01:00) of explorer.exe in Task Manager uses over 250 MB of memory. This product every day when I leave the pc for the night and I discovered that explorer.exe use over 250 MB in the morning. Also here are my pc specs:

-Pentium D 3.2 Ghz
-2 GB OF RAM
-Nvidia Geforce GT 430 graphics
-XP Pro with SP3 and latest windows updates (as of June 16/11)

I'm not an expert in their use, but I think you should be able to get to the bottom of this help Process Explorer and/or Process Monitor.  If you find it difficult to know how to use these tools, see the Forums of Sysinternals.

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