Two instances of iexplore.exe in Task Manager processes
Smirnoff
I noticed that I had two instances of iexplore.exe running in Task Manager
processes.
Discovering this was part of my attempt to find out why I suddenly couldn't
sign in to WLM.
Having done some searching on different forums, I discovered that some
people were blaming the BT Yahoo Toolbar for this behaviour. I have run the
BT Toolbar without problems before, although I recently upgraded to version
8, so the new version may be the problem.
I decided to open IE8 in "No Add Ons" mode but Task Manager still showed two
iexplore.exe processes (one using about 54,000k the other about 15,000k). So
then I uninstalled BT Yahoo toolbar along with any other BT or Yahoo
applications I could find in Add/Remove Programs and rebooted.
On reopening IE8 the two processes were still shown even after toolbar etc.
uninstall.
I use Microsoft Security Essentials as my AV and have recently run
Malwarebytes and Superantispyware (both fully updated) so I don't think it's
a malware or virus problem.
Smirnoff
"Smirnoff" <som...@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
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May have answered my own question. Just looked in Process Explorer and it
seems the second instance of iexplore.exe is for Tabs (coloured brown).
Funny, never noticed the two processes in Task Manager before
Donald Anadell
"Smirnoff" <som...@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
More Reliable:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.ie8.aspx
IE8 and Loosely-Coupled IE (LCIE)
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2008/03/11/ie8-and-loosely-coupled-ie-lcie.aspx
Internet Explorer questions:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/InternetExplorer/
Good luck,
Donald Anadell
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Smirnoff
"Donald Anadell" <dana...@nospamersmikrotec.com> wrote in message
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Thanks for the links
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blackhead
> XP Pro, SP3, IE8
>
> processes.
>
> Discovering this was part of my attempt to find out why I suddenly couldn't
> sign in to WLM.
>
> Having done some searching on different forums, I discovered that some
> people were blaming the BT Yahoo Toolbar for this behaviour. I have run the
> BT Toolbar without problems before, although I recently upgraded to version
> 8, so the new version may be the problem.
>
> then I uninstalled BT Yahoo toolbar along with any other BT or Yahoo
> applications I could find in Add/Remove Programs and rebooted.
>
> On reopening IE8 the two processes were still shown even after toolbar etc.
> uninstall.
>
> I use Microsoft Security Essentials as my AV and have recently run
> Malwarebytes and Superantispyware (both fully updated) so I don't think it's
> a malware orvirusproblem.
It may be the iexplorer.exe virus which wasn't detected by my anti-
virus software.
Has there been a lot of hard disk drive activity?
PaulM
a 3rd tab and there will 3, open a 4th tab and there will be 4.
That's the way IE8 works.
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"blackhead" <larry...@softhome.net> wrote in message
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PA Bear [MS MVP]
e.g.,
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/msg/49ba858f39475b7f
e.g.,
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/msg/7b3809dae6c38382