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Sometimes I spot two instances of explorer.exe in the Tash Manager. Is there a need to run instances of explorer.exe in any case? Or this is some unusual malicious behavior??

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This is fine, regular explorer windows and the taskbar are both explorer.exe, but run as separate instances so that one crashing doesn't take down the other.

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  • thnx...now I don't have to wry anymore
    – detj
    Mar 21, 2010 at 18:58
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There's not a need for it as such. You can chose which behaviour you prefer;

Tools, Folder options, check/uncheck "Launch folder windows in a different process".
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  • I don't have this option on
    – detj
    Mar 21, 2010 at 18:11

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