"walkerwj" <walkerwj@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:6A640055-CC90-4967-9EC2-1ABAC07333B5@microsoft.com...
>I am running a Dell computer (1 GHz PIII, 512MB RAM) with XP SP3. For some
> reason I have noticed that IE 7 is running two processes under Task Manager,
> both identically named but one with less Mem Usage. Other computers, Dell and
> HP also running XP SP3 with IE7 are only running one process. I have run AVG
> antivirus and have come up with no concerns on the system.

> Has anyone else seen this or experienced this issue?


As others have indicated this is more common with IE8
but there is nothing unusual about it with other versions of IE.

Determining how it happens depends on how the addresses
involved with each instance were launched, in particular the
first address associated with launching the second instance
and how that was done. For example, I often found with IE6
that I was able to launch a new instance of iexplore.exe
by using the IE icon or a Favorite via my Start menu. YMMV.


> Thanks.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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