IE Explorer and Task Manager

[Joe D]

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.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

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.

 

[Dan]

"Joe D" <Joe D@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E283D2E3-365E-461B-BB5D-AA6594F805FD@microsoft.com...
> 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!!!!

--
Dan