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There's another possibility: You have multiple iexplore.exe processes open when you have (or recently have had) multiple tabs open in IE. If you close your tabs, all or most of those iexplore.exe processes should end. But, sometimes what happens is that for some reason, the IE tabs that you think you've closed, haven't actually closed, and their processes continue to run in Task Manager. If you go into Task Manager and manually end those processes, you'll see that immediately thereafter, a number of IE windows will open and shut themselves down, thus clearing the iexplore.exe processes in Task Manager. By the way, even if that isn't the situation, there's no harm done in just periodically going into Task Manager and manually ending those iexplore.exe processes yourself.