Currently I am having an issue when running IE8, in the task manager under
processes there are 2 instances of IE showing. One is almost double to triple
the amount of memory usage. If I end process on the lesser one it shuts down
IE, however if I end process on the larger one it just reappears slightly
less memory usage then before and the browser just resets itself. Any ideas
on what could be causing this.

 

See http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/07/28/ie8-and-reliability.aspx

Joe D wrote:
> Currently I am having an issue when running IE8, in the task manager under
> processes there are 2 instances of IE showing. One is almost double to
> triple the amount of memory usage. If I end process on the lesser one it
> shuts down IE, however if I end process on the larger one it just
> reappears
> slightly less memory usage then before and the browser just resets itself.
> Any ideas on what could be causing this.

 

"Joe D" <Joe D@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Currently I am having an issue when running IE8, in the task manager under
> processes there are 2 instances of IE showing. One is almost double to
> triple
> the amount of memory usage. If I end process on the lesser one it shuts
> down
> IE, however if I end process on the larger one it just reappears slightly
> less memory usage then before and the browser just resets itself. Any
> ideas
> on what could be causing this.

As well as checking the link PA Bear posted, here's the quick answer - the
one using more memory is the IE tab/window you can see, so killing that
process causes the other iexplore process (which is the one that controls
all the instances) to create a new one and reload what was in it, hence you
see a "reset". Killing the other one terminates them both because you've
just killed the parent process. Don't kill IE processes unless you
absolutely have no choice!!!!

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Dan