Explorer.exe increases 12K per second and 2 unheard of files referenced.

Also, on log out or reboot a window flashes for a fraction of a second that says MSRIPLUS.EXE - DLL initialization failed and the message is in the error log.

Also, a message, "olespmsg.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is bieng generated." In a popup window labeled "Program Error" with only an OK button appears shortly after load of explorer.exe on boot and on first load of explorer.exe to browse drive. It also happens about once a hour randomly. No file created that I can find. Clicking "OK" closes the window with no other effect I can track. Leave the mesage there for about 5 minutes and it closes on its own. Process "MMC.EXE" hosts the error window. Explorer.exe is the correct one, I also replaced it just to be sure. Same for MMC.EXE.

Starting Explorer.exe or MMC.exe causes the explorer process memory usage to drop back to a variable amount from 2.5K to 9K then jump back up a variable amount to around 10K and start creeping up at 12K per second again.

I have tried everything I can think of to peg what is bumping explorer.exe's footprint 12K at a time.

When you start another window of explorer.exe, the memory footprint reduces for a sec then jumps back to around 11K total and begins incrementing at 24K until you close the extra explorer window. Opening a copy of MMC.exe does not increase the memory step size.

I am able to keep the system useable by loading explorer every hour or so to dump the memory back down to around 11K.

HiJack has nothing, Spybot S&D has nothing, MS Defender has nothing.

Norton 2003 has nothing.

Norton Corp 9 has nothing.

Office Source Engine service was disabled, I put it back to Manual so Outlook updates could be applied.

Symantec Password Validation Service was disabled, I put it back to Manual also so Symantec A/V would quit complaining.

No Viruses, Worms, Trojans, Spyware reported by anything running. Running memory resident TeaTimer.

MSRIPLUS.EXE is a no hit in every engine I tried.
olespmsg.exe is a no hit in every engine I tried.

I started working on this system due to complaints of Pop-ups. I removed some extraneous things from "Add and Remove ". Of note is that "ContextPlus" was listed. Upon attempted removal, several (12 or so) pop-up messages regarding ole failure occured and no noticeable removal happened but it is no longer in "Add Remove "

Does anyone recognize this?

Jesse Fenwick