IEXPLORE.exe process still running after all browser closed

[IE6]

IEXPLORE.exe process still running after all browser closed, I'm using IE6 and WinXP. Any idea to resolve this?

 

[kippy13]

IEXPLORE.EXE: This is the IE browser. Pops up only when you want to suck up 7.3 MB to ?? MB of memory to surf the web. I say ?? MB because every time you open an additional browser, you also start another one of these processes. If you close "all" browser windows, a IEXPLORE.EXE process will still be running. This is a "feature" to allow faster startup the next time you open IE. Unlike Mozilla, you cannot disable this "feature" other than directly killing the offending process.

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/strangeservice.htm

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[bcastner]

There are other reasons besides fast startup of a new IE session for the IE core to be running. Any HTML print job through a MS application (an Office application, for example) will use IE as the print engine.

If you have Outlook Express or Outlook, for example, open then it needs to have the IE core available.

 

[IE6]

Thanks for your info. Are you saying only one IEXPLORE.EXE process will still be running after closed all browsers? For my case, there are multiple of these processes still running depend on how many IE that I had started and closed. Is this normal?

 

[bcastner]

I just checked mine.
No browser sessions open.
Outlook Express open, minimized.

IE core running (28k + RAM used)
IE one instance (17K+ RAM (due to OE)

I am not sure whether Windows Messenger or MSN Messenger or something else requires an instance of IE.

As I have opened this browser window to write this, one more instance (10k+ RAM) was opened, which is what I would expect.

If you do not have an email program open, no spam washer or anything else running, no IM clients and now browser sessions, I would expect that there would be only the core of IE running. (Although some other Office Apps will open an instance of IE).

I guess I would be concerned if 3 or more instances of IE showed up in Task Manager on a clean start without ever having opened an IM, browser session, or email client.

 

[zjudeh]

So is there any fix for this problem? I'm having the same issure..ie., still running in task manager after closing all instances of IE6 browser

 

[kippy13]

Is it causing a problem?
Have you read the posts above which say theres no sure "fix" for it.....

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[zjudeh]

It' taking up a lot of memory when IE is running in the task manager after I closed the actual windows.