"Abe" <Abe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7BF8B62D-E3CC-42C3-87B7-F34F949B864F@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> hi all, i have a new vista machine and the same processes are running
> multiple times in vista. Here are a few items that are running multiple
> times
>
> ati2evxx.exe - 2 times
> cli.exe - 3 times
> csrss.exe - 2 times
> svchost.exe - 13 times (split amongst local, network, system)
>
> Those are just a few examples, not sure why they are running this way as
> my
> XP machine didnt do that.
>
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These are all programs not processes.
A better way to understand the situation is:
ati2evxx.exe is being run by two different processes doing two different
tasks
etc.

local, network, and system are process owners. A given process owner can
execute several different processes.

Jim