Danna

The 2 sidebar.exe instances is by design. One is to handle any custom
gadgets and the other is for the built-in default gadgets plus the sidebar
itself.

The ati2evxx.exe is also by design, one instance runs the service and the
other runs the application.

cli.exe is the ATI Catalyst Control Center for the video card.

I doubt very much if you have anything running that was simply "carried
over" from a previous install.

Seeing 'what' is running is simple, but determining the 'why' it is running
is much more difficult.

I am curious, how are you determining the 'performance impact' of these
programs and services?

If you want a more complete view and description of these tasks, you can use
a command line to take a look. Open a command prompt and use the tasklist
command. Type tasklist /? to see all of the possible parameters.



--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"Danna" <Danna@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1C1D5B0B-5DB0-4D26-BF18-D199607FD6D5@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> 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=darkred]
>> > In article <7BF8B62D-E3CC-42C3-87B7-F34F949B864F@microsoft.com>,
>> > =?Utf-8?B?
>> > QWJl?= says...
>> >
>> >> 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.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> > 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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