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    duplicates processes running in task manager

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by jd1010, Jul 10, 2007.

  1. jd1010

    jd1010 Notebook Evangelist

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    I did a clean install a couple of days ago on my thinkpad t61. For some reason I have some duplicates of processes in my task manager. For example one of them is taskeng.exe. Right now I have two of these processes running. One of them under SYSTEM and the other under my windows username. Another is crss.exe, which is the client server runtime process. Both of these are running under SYSTEM.

    I know I've seen this with a few other processes at other times. Can anyone explain this?
     
    jd1010, Jul 10, 2007
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  2. thegsrguy

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    That's pretty typical. svchost can be running multiple times, for example.
     
    thegsrguy, Jul 10, 2007
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    Jalf Comrade Santa

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    Not much explanation is needed. Processes can be started as many times as you like. Many programs "cheat", and instead of starting a new process, they check if the application is already running, and if it is, just sends a message to that, so they never have more than one process running (IE and Firefox do that, for example), but by default, every time you start a program, it creates a new process.
     
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