3 programs running when I only have 1 running

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hi, thanks in anticipation for looking at my query. I was running google,
left my pc for a while then returned and it had gone back to sign in and it
said I had 3 programs running when I only had google running. forgive my
ignorance but what does that mean? I searched for this and read that if you
have more than one svchost.exe running it meant something else was occurring,
I have 6, 1 local service, 2 network service, and 3 system. Is this related
to my first query? can anyone help me understand? thanks
 
It is perfectly normal to have several svchost running at the same time.
Several processes depend on it, hence the reason for several instances. I
have 6 running as I write this.

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Curt

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| hi, thanks in anticipation for looking at my query. I was running google,
| left my pc for a while then returned and it had gone back to sign in and
it
| said I had 3 programs running when I only had google running. forgive my
| ignorance but what does that mean? I searched for this and read that if
you
| have more than one svchost.exe running it meant something else was
occurring,
| I have 6, 1 local service, 2 network service, and 3 system. Is this
related
| to my first query? can anyone help me understand? thanks
 
Curt Christianson said:
It is perfectly normal to have several svchost running at the same time.
Several processes depend on it, hence the reason for several instances. I
have 6 running as I write this.

--
Curt

http://dundats.mvps.org/
http://www.aumha.org/


| hi, thanks in anticipation for looking at my query. I was running
google,
| left my pc for a while then returned and it had gone back to sign in and
it
| said I had 3 programs running when I only had google running. forgive my
| ignorance but what does that mean? I searched for this and read that if
you
| have more than one svchost.exe running it meant something else was
occurring,
| I have 6, 1 local service, 2 network service, and 3 system. Is this
related
| to my first query? can anyone help me understand? thanks
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It is better understood as having more than one process executing
svchost.exe. This is no more significant than if you had more than one
process executing notepad.exe.

If you look at the processes via Process Explorer, you will find that each
process is using svchost.exe to perform different tasks.

Jim
 
rosypee said:
Thanks curt, thanks jim, thats helpful. And if I only had google running and
on login it said I had 3 programs running, thats normal too? I didn't have
anything else running.
Click to expand...

Might there have been start-up programs running in the systray?
Antivirus or firewall perhaps?
 
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