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open explorer, starts new process, close it, process remains active
Hi,
I've got a quicklaunch shortcut to:
%windir%\explorer.exe shell:::{323CA680-C24D-4099-B94D-446DD2D7249E}
That takes me straight to my explorer favourites. What I notice is that when I launch that, I get a new explorer.exe thread appear in the task manager. When I close it though, that thread remains active. It's not doing anything, but it's still there. Anyone know why it wouldn't terminate? Is it to do with how I'm launching it (using the shell parameter) ?
Here are some tests I did, in each case I started out with only my main explorer instance (the one that holds the systray, quicklaunch etc).
1. Click my shortcut from quicklaunch shown above.
2. Click the red "X" to close it.
3. Repeat steps 1 & 2 four more times.
Result:
After closing all those explorers, so I was back to having only my main explorer, I did this sequence:
1. Click Start->Run-> and typed explorer and enter.
2. Click the red "X" to close it.
3. Repeat steps 1 & 2 four more times.
Result:
Also, after a while that one single extra explorer disappeared. I guess it stuck around a minute or so, maybe in case I decided to start explorer again, it would save me a few milliseconds by not having to re-launch fully.
The shortcut ones do also disappear eventually sometimes, but other times they don't.
It's not at all unusual for me to start task manager, despite having no explorer windows open and not having had any open for quite a while, to see 10+ explorer processes sat there.