IE creates new IEXPLORE.EXE processes (no spyware)

[Dhan]

I am facing this weird situation. Let me start with
saying that I am fairly advanced windows user and PLEASE
DO NOT

suggest me to check my system for spywares. Because it is
not infected!!!

My problem is as follows, (win xp sp1 with all updates)

1. I start IE from start menu, one process starts in task
manager. I open a new window using Ctrl+N, still only 1

process running.
2. I click on IE on start menu again and now a 2nd
process is started, this process behaves same as #1

This continues everytime I launch a new process from
start menu.
(open folders in separate processes under folder options
is not selected)

what am I missing ?

 

[RayO]

That's normal!

If you're a very advanced user then may
know about non-persistent cookies and cross
windows scripting. When a new IE window
is opened from say a link running script "window.open()",
or Ctrl+N, the two windows can communicate
via script, that's why both sessions run in the same process.
They also share the same non-persistent cookies.

Of course you can always run a whole new IEXPLORE.EXE
process, in which case they're independent, and there will
be no cross window scripting communication, and no sharing
of non-persistent cookies in that case.

RayO

 

[RayO]

BTW, that setting you alluded to in Folder Options
has nothing to do with IE. It's a setting for Windows
Explorer, not Internet Explorer.

RayO

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

what am I missing ?

Read what the usual advice is for this problem more closely.
It is not just "spyware" that causes this symptom. Standard
third-party toolbars such as Google and Yahoo have been
implicated. Others have fixed their problem by removing such
programs, call them what you wish.

 

[Jarrid000]

I've got a question related to this issue. I am trying to force a new
process when a user clicks on link.
To be more specific I have a form with a user and pass field. When the
user clicks the submit button there is a bit of javascript that does a
window.open (without the toolbars, etc ) to a redirector page. This
redirector page is written mostly in perlscript and it's job is to
pick out the best server from a file that is generate with a backend
load balancer. Once it picks the best URL our application is loaded in
the new window.open window.
So a better flow would be Login --> JavaScript window.open(redirector
page) --> Redirector page loads a url with target = _self --> App is
running.
My problem is that all the window.opens that spawn from the log in
page all use the same iexplore.exe process and if one hangs they all
hang. I have verified that this behavior doesn't occur if I launch a
new login page, because if I do that I get a new iexplore.exe process.
What I need to do is have the window.open (or somewhere in the flow )
have a new iexplore.exe process created so all windows that are
spawned from the login pare work independantly of each other.
Thanks for any help you might be able to offer.