Two explorer exe running

I guess that means that my system is clean! Threshold said on October 26, at pm. Explorer has been giving me issues for over a year, hanging constantly. Is there a way to avoid this? Joey Cam said on November 3, at pm. Jupiter said on October 27, at am. Is this normal? Martin Brinkmann said on October 27, at am. Each plugin is running in its own container as far as I know.

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Rudeness and personal attacks will not be tolerated. Please stay on-topic. This option exists so that your folders can run separately from your desktop. This can be a common problem and headache in Windows systems that run all of explorer. Unless you find yourself in a situation where you really need Megs of RAM, you might want to consider leaving this box checked. Name required. Mail will not be published required. Notify me of follow-up comments by email.

Notify me of new posts by email. Thursday, April 8, AM. Hi there, Do you happen to use Utorrent? Friday, April 9, AM. Running Windows 7 Ultimate x Seems its a bug with certain softwares and the way they interact with WPF, or something.

Let me know what can I do to help debug the problem, I have moderate tech skills. Saturday, April 24, AM. Are you able to attach a debugger to one of these "extra" explorer. Or use Process Explorer to check the stacks of its threads to see what they may be doing? Saturday, April 24, PM. Sunday, April 25, PM. THank you floyd11 I too have many explorer exes, after reading your question, I went to utorrent 1. While at this time, i have 3 explorer exes, which I don't know from where they are coming, And process explorer shows, two are the sub categories of winnt.

Monday, May 3, AM. Wednesday, May 19, AM. I am having the same problems. It doesn't happened on utorrent, flashget and FDM also have the same problems if I use the open containing file directory features. Is this the software bugs flashget, FDM need to fix or Windows problems? Monday, September 20, AM. I know I'm a few years late on this reply, but the issue you described can be caused by Mozilla Firefox when using the "Open Containing Folder" selection in the context menu of the Download Bar, or any other application that launches an explorer window.

Depends on the method they are using to spawn that window. It appears that the method Mozilla is using worked fine in XP, but does not work for Windows 7. I noticed a post about UTorrent as well. This application also has a menu option to Open a Containing Folder. This leads me to believe, that something has changed in the way Windows spawns an explorer window, and that the methods the 3rd party apps use, while they may work on XP, do not work in Win Good point about the changing of the default folders.

Still means the method the 3rd party app uses is not the same one MS uses in Win7, which makes 3rd party developers have to do some logic for determining which OS version is running and handle each differently, which sucks!!! The link is posted below. The guys are working hard on it over there. Tuesday, August 2, PM. Thanks for the hints, now I just have to change my scripts. Wednesday, August 17, PM.

Hope this might help someone :. Wednesday, November 9, AM. Open file location, in any non explorer. I am aware of the other problem with this regarding the taskbar buttons and what not but i believe the solution would be basicly the same and im not elaborating on that problem because I dont know much about that one as its not the problem that affected me So I google search, i came across the first few results, mostly forum and it was this page that mentioned the using utorrent and "open file location" command as each time it is an additional explorer.

I put 2 and 2 together realizing just a few minutes previously upon downloading a file in firefox browser i used the "open file location" option that is so popular of a command nowadays. I had a hunch. Basicly if you use the command "open file location" with any 3rd party program or perhaps even any program other than explorer.

With 5 minutes of research and 30 seconds of thinking from a somewhat computer literate average individual like myself I have found the solution and the most likely cause of the problem that everyone is missing, I have one upped the tech support engineers all of them that Ive ever seen online or met. I hope this helps everyone across all forums those I have seen. Dont worry if you kill the main explorer. Thursday, November 10, AM.

A simple solution to the multi instance of explorer. I found the solution on another forum : in this case, simply put the aim disk or directory in the shortcut. It works very well and doesn't leave any Explorer process pending in memory. Tested on Windows 7 32 and 64 bits, works like a charm. Proposed as answer by trumpy81 Tuesday, January 31, PM. I am currently experiencing this exact same issue. I will have multiple instances of explorer. I have tried running scans with both AVG and Malwarebytes.

I have also tried removing the temporary internet files, but they keep flooding back. If I attempt to close explorer. At that point I need to restart the computer. Normally, with only one instance of explorer. Although explorer. The problem described by Caboose, Brian Graff, and Jeremy Word appears to be related to the use of torrent downloading programs, specifically when using "Open Containing Folder. It would be helpful if people with this issue would describe what they are doing when the problem happens.

When I start windows I can open the task menu and see that a new instance of explorer. This is without opening anything else. Each one starts at say 10,k and steadily climbs to over 1,,k. My computer slows. I end task, and it starts over. I have noticed that ctfmon. Please Help. They have found nothing.