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Multiple explorer processes.
There are times when I open the task manager and I see six or eight, sometimes twelve or more instances of explorer.exe running and eating up resources. This can be when I have an explorer window open, or even if I'm just sitting at an empty desktop or doing nothing at all. There's always a "master" one that is eating up anywhere from 10 to 50MB of RAM or more (depending on if I have an explorer window open, whether or not I'm moving files around, etc.), then there are as many as a dozen or more little ones eating up anywhere from 1.5MB to 10MB or more (depending on I don't know what...)
Why is explorer launching multiple instances? Or, why are explorer processes not being killed off the way they should? How can I get this under control?