Two instances of iexplore.exe in Task Manager processes
in [Windows XP]
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From: blackhead on 7 Aug 2010 14:15 On 3 Aug, 14:09, "Smirnoff" <some...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > XP Pro, SP3, IE8 > > I noticed that I had two instances ofiexplore.exerunning 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 twoiexplore.exeprocesses (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 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?
From: PaulM on 7 Aug 2010 15:19 There are always 2 iexplore.exe in the task manager when you open ie8. Open a 3rd tab and there will 3, open a 4th tab and there will be 4. That's the way IE8 works. -- Paul's XP and Vista Help ----------------------------------------- www.paulsxp.com --------------------------------------- Paul's Forum -------------------------------------- www.paulsxp.com/forum -------------------------------------- "blackhead" <larryharson(a)softhome.net> wrote in message news:a0bf939a-a6d9-4238-a5d4-b776d81cbb35(a)f42g2000yqn.googlegroups.com... > On 3 Aug, 14:09, "Smirnoff" <some...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: >> XP Pro, SP3, IE8 >> >> I noticed that I had two instances ofiexplore.exerunning 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 >> twoiexplore.exeprocesses (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 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?
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 7 Aug 2010 15:46
Did you even bother to read the other replies to this thread? 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 blackhead wrote: > On 3 Aug, 14:09, "Smirnoff" <some...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: >> XP Pro, SP3, IE8 >> >> I noticed that I had two instances ofiexplore.exerunning 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 >> twoiexplore.exeprocesses (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 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? |