I've had the same issue after my machine was upgrded from XP to Vista & it is
performance impacting. The explanations included in this thread make
sense....but I also have two sessions of Sidebar.exe running under my user ID
- not spread across system, local etc... That situation is not covered by
the above explanations. I have to wonder if during the upgrade , there was
some duplication that causes some of the processes / servers to be called
upon more than once. I did not find the Right-click & Go-to be
enlightening. Is there another way to determine why two identical processes
would be started by the same user more than one time with noPrograms launched
other than IE?

"Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:
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> Hi Mike,
>
> Process Explorer is a great product, but Task Manager has been expanded in
> Vista. You can right click a Process and select Go to service and all of the
> services running under that process will be highlighted.
>
> --
>
> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
>
> "Mike Matheny" <thomasdotmdotmatheny@nasadotgov> wrote in message
> news:OysoXlrhHHA.588@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...[color=green]
> > In article <7BF8B62D-E3CC-42C3-87B7-F34F949B864F@microsoft.com>,
> > =?Utf-8?B?
> > QWJl?= says...
> >[color=darkred]
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>[/color]
> > Get Process Explorer (Systernals) from MS Website (They bought
> > Systernals) -
> > will show you every sub process kicked off by svchost (and other similar
> > processes)
> > --
> >
> > Mike Matheny[/color]
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