re: Same task listed multiple times in running tasks
Saturday, July 10, 2004 at 10:06 pm
Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
Not a problem. Depends on what the Kernel32 has to do to support the different
tasks that are running. Three instances of Kernel32 showing up with different ProcessID's
is normal on my system.
Now multiple instances of other programs could be a problem. Multiple instances
of RUNDLL32.exe indicates a DLL or Device driver problem that is not responding to
system messages, hence the RUNDLL32.exe task that is spawn off by some program to
perform a DLL function call can not complete and exit.
For looking at active Process, WinTop tool does a better job and is quicker to use.
It displays each instance of active tasks, and shows the actual percent usage of
the processor by each one. By clicking on a task, it will expand into how many threads
that task has runing and show what percentage each thread is using. Unlike the Ctrl-Alt-Del
Task Manager, it shows "hidden" tasks as well.
See:  for more
information on fixing problems.
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