Internet Explorer processes left open

[ThrashZone]

Use Clean boot,
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/179159-troubleshoot-application-conflicts-performing-clean-startup.html
Click Start and type in the search box,
msconfig
Click on the suggestion on top or hit the Enter key,
Go to the Startup section and take some screen shots for a complete list,
Go to the Services section and on the bottom left Check the box to Hide All Microsoft services,
Repeat the screen shots,

See the links above my signature on how to take and upload screen shots here,
Cheers.

 

[whs]

Superfetch always caches the last running program as long as there is free RAM for caching. I have seen up to 6 times IE or other programs in cache. It does not clean up the old ones but goes round robin - first in, first out.

 

[imaddicted2u]

Use Clean boot,
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/179159-troubleshoot-application-conflicts-performing-clean-startup.html
Click Start and type in the search box,
msconfig
Click on the suggestion on top or hit the Enter key,
Go to the Startup section and take some screen shots for a complete list,
Go to the Services section and on the bottom left Check the box to Hide All Microsoft services,
Repeat the screen shots,

See the links above my signature on how to take and upload screen shots here,
Cheers.

After clean boot issue persists. Unless I close the iexplore processes left behind in Task Manager before reopening IE.

 

[whs]

I think you are chasing a red herring. It's not going to hurt your system, it uses no resources other than some otherwise unused RAM. Why are you worried about it.

 

[imaddicted2u]

I think you are chasing a red herring. It's not going to hurt your system, it uses no resources other than some otherwise unused RAM. Why are you worried about it.

It's not the processes left behind that I'm worried about. Except that they seem to be key to my problem, the reason I started this thread...Previous tabs not reopening when I restart IE.

 

[whs]

Maybe you want to play with those settings:

 

[imaddicted2u]

I might add that I had this same issue since IE10. I've seen it reported in many forums quite often. Was hoping there was a fix by now.

 

[imaddicted2u]

Maybe you want to play with those settings:

View attachment 343658

Played with those. I would think it was settings related, the previous tabs would either never reopen or always reopen.
Could it be a coincidence that ending the iexplore processes before reopening IE makes the opening of previous tabs work correctly each and every time?

 

[whs]

That would be a strange behavior - but anything is possible. I could imagine that it does not retrieve the last occurance from RAM. But I am only speculating.

 

[imaddicted2u]

Just a few of the links I found to others reporting same issue. Seems fairly common.
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/fe...ion-does-not-always-remember-last-opened-tabs
https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/809619/ie-11-will-not-reopen-last-session-tabs
Bug: "Warn me when closing multiple tabs" doesn't work - Microsoft Community
IE 10 does not restore tabs from the last session - Microsoft Community

 

[ThrashZone]

You might go to the settings button again next to delete,
Then go to the Caches section and uncheck that option,
I imagine you can uncheck delete browser history on exit if you haven't already,
That is quite a few services going on with only 3 gigs of ram,
Cheers.

 

[imaddicted2u]

You might go to the settings button again next to delete,
Then go to the Caches section and uncheck that option,
I imagine you can uncheck delete browser history on exit if you haven't already,
That is quite a few services going on with only 3 gigs of ram,
Cheers.

Thanks, I had set things back already.
I'll try to pare down the services that I can but I don't have many programs installed. When I'm doing everything that I normally do, mostly a browser with 10-12 tabs and Windows Live email, according to task manager there is 2.00GB (67%) of RAM used, 1.00GB free.
You don't think that the RAM is causing the opening previous tab issue in Internet Explorer do you?
Have you got any other thoughts on how to get restore previous session working correctly?

 

[imaddicted2u]

You might go to the settings button again next to delete,
Then go to the Caches section and uncheck that option,
I imagine you can uncheck delete browser history on exit if you haven't already,
That is quite a few services going on with only 3 gigs of ram,
Cheers.

Hey, thanks for the advice, I disabled all the unneeded services that I can and memory use dropped from 2.0GB (67%) to 1.5GB (50%).

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi good deal,
You might consider look at a ram upgrade
4gigs should be fine but with 7 ultimate and the services 6-8 would be better
Do you use all of the language packs and stuff in 7 ultimate ?

Either way I would look into the ram upgrade for being a long term solution
Cheers.

I'll just add I just did a full ram upgrade of all 8 gigs so they all matched for about 125u.s. at Crucial
You can probably get better deals possibly but it's not really a big expense
It's better to not mix ram sticks so I've heard :/

 

[imaddicted2u]

I don't have any language packs installed other than english.
I'm not sure this old laptop is worth the $$$ to upgrade the ram. I only use it for web browsing anyway. My desktop PC has 8GB.
Something I've never been able to get my head around though is, how adding more ram will improve performance when windows is only using 50% of the ram available now.
Here is another interesting thread I found about the tabs not reopening issue. Happens in windows 8 also.
IE11 - Startup Tabs - Restore Last Session Not Working - Microsoft Community

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
You'd be surprised on how much 4 gigs will help windows in general which is usually the minimum most people would recommend for a 64 bit system,
For a 32 bit system 3 gigs is probably fine I have that in my laptop and is good,
It's much better now that I upgraded to a ssd in it,

But traditionally a 64 bit system would have a bit more ram
Cheers.

 

[imaddicted2u]

I gather there is not fix for this problem?
Another thing I noticed is the first time after a reset of internet explorer to default settings, the two iexplore processes are closed properly upon exiting IE. After that they are left open every time IE is exited and must be ended manually or the previous session tabs will not be restored.

 

[Nelson35]

I've started having this problem again myself. What does it mean when I go to end the process and it says it will result in an unstable system? I've included a screen grab.

 

[ThrashZone]

Nelson you also have GWX.exe and that is related to Win-10 being downloaded and probably about to be installed
So iexplore is probably being used by GWX.exe

If you do want win-10 leave it alone,
If not stop GWX.exe first then iexplore
http://www.sevenforums.com/windows-updates-activation/383252-windows-10-update-removal.html