Why do I have 2 explorer.exes?

entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
edited December 2004 in Science & Tech
Every time I look, explorer.exe is running twice. Is that normal? They're both takin up a substantial amount of memory, too. The thing is, if I end them both and start explorer.exe ONCE, there doesn't seem to be any problem. What could be causing this? :confused:

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    Virooses on teh yu0r PC?
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited December 2004
    Almost positive there aren't. I've scanned multiple times since I've noticed this - why I'm mentioning it now, I don't know. I've also ran Spybot and Adaware, but I'll run them again...
  • Access_DeniedAccess_Denied tennessee
    edited December 2004
    i used to have a simaler problem cept mine was IEXPLORE.EXE. it started twice with windows so i went into msconfig and killed both instantces of it an i dont have that problem anymore.. might work with yours as well, see if it shows up there
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited December 2004
    Nah, explorer.exe wouldn't show up in Startup to begin with. I did check, though, and it's not there. :(

    60% through a virus scan, and it found JS.Trojan.Downloader.Zerolin.B in a junk mail folder of Thunderbird. Couldn't clean it or remove it, so I'll have to do that manually later. I don't think that's what the problem is, though. I haven't noticed any problems at all.
  • Access_DeniedAccess_Denied tennessee
    edited December 2004
    im stupid, i should of looked before posting that.. sorry i couldnt help
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