Beginning yesterday afternoon 7-20-2015 ListaryHelper64 began running “hard” on my WIndows 8.1 laptop. It’s taking up quite a lot of resources on my Quadcore i-7. Today ListaryHelper64 is still running and consuming enough resources to make the fan run non-stop. I quit Listary via Exit. ListaryHelper64 did not quit. Using ProcessExplorer I force quit ListaryHelper64. The resource drain stopped and the fan shut off after several seconds. I restarted Listary. ListaryHelper64 also restarted, but it is now consuming 0% of CPU time. I’m on version 4.23.1728. (I was in Listary Options yesterday. I viewed the Index tab, but did not request a re-index or make any changes there.)
Did you install some applications recently? If you uncheck “Start Listary when Windows starts” in Listary Options - General, and start Listary manually instead, do you still encounter this issue?
You can also try this:
Uncheck “Start Listary when Windows starts” and exit Listary.
Based on the new information you provided, you don’t need to try the suggestions in my original reply.
This issue is most likely triggered by a buggy shell extension. If you right click the .jpg file in Explorer directly without Listary, what happens? Can you post a screenshot of the popup context menu?
If I right click OR if I use the right arrow key (to get your menu where I can choose to ‘show folder’) BOTH actions throw ListaryHelper64 into “mad mode”.
If I “Kill” ListaryHelper64 then I can use right-arrow and get your menu. Right-click also gets your menu. But, of course, I have to use Alt-X to get to Listary and not just on demand by typing.
Right-clicking on the file in Directory Opus gets this menu.
This happened again today. Same symptoms. HOWEVER, later on I used Directory Opus to search for a file which it found. I right clicked on the file to see its location and it hung up just like Listary (albeit without the processor running wild). If Listary is using DOpus for it’s searches maybe the problem is actual Dopus.
Good call. I use a nice little program called PhotoSync to transfer graphics files between my iPhone and my computer. This has a right-click menu item (and the software also had a recent update). I disabled this feature and now both Listary and Dopus work correctly again.
In case other uses are having this problem, here is where to find that option:
Start8/10 would be a replacement for Classic Start Menu, which I also use. It’s not causing any problems. The conflict was with Photosync. I don’t see where Start8/10 does any file transfer to an iPhone. Did I miss something? It does look like a nice Start program.
