That I said to start it again “via the start menu or desktop icon”. With IE there’s a catch that can be really confusing, though. They’re there because you asked for them.Īgain, this is actually really common as people fire up multipleīrowser windows to look at multiple sites and do multiple things all at Start closing them and one by one they’ll The start menu or desktop icon) – and you’ll get two. Open IE once,Īnd you’ll get one IEXPLORE.EXE in your task list. IEXPLORE.EXE is an easier scenario to understand, since it’s mostly That’s how the software was written and what it expects. Again, having two instances of CCSVCHST.EXE is likely because Running would potentially break some important aspect of what Nortonĭoes. There twice by design, and terminating or preventing one instance from To be a part of Norton internet security. I can’t speak to CCSVCHST.EXE from your example, though it appears That’s simply how the software was written. Program for a variety of different services that run within windows.Įach one may (or may not) cause a new instance of SVCHOST to appear. SVCHOST is a great example, as it’s a utility “host” The fact is that some programs are just designed to have multipleĬopies running.
Designed to have multiple copies running.”
