Many Instances of same application in Task Manager


  1. ComatoseRoses
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    Many Instances of same application in Task Manager


    Hi all. Thanks for taking a second to look. I have been having this problem for a while now. I am running an Alienware Alpha r1 (Yea I know...) and I formatted it and removed the Alienware software and I just have wiundows 10 running. For some reason it always has multiple instances of the same programs running and I cant stop it. I have tried disabling them but things just keep popping up as repeats of the same program. I think it's really bogging my system down. Has anyone seen anything like this before? Anyone have a fix? This is just one secion of the task manager but it shows the duplicates. Many other programs are duplicated at least as many times. Thanks.

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  3. Plankton
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    In your attachment; your Steam client has 7 instances running. Is steam still running? How do you exit steam when you're done playing? What does your startup tab show?
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  4. ComatoseRoses
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    Just minimiaze it to task bar. If I end the task down to no instances of steam and start steam once, it starts at least 5 of them in the task manager but only one pops up on my screen. It seams to be backend processes because running a game only creates one instance. Also its the backend steam program that duplicates.
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  6. Plankton
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    It seems to be backend processes because running a game only creates one instance.
    Yes...exactly. I just opened my steam and now I have 6 running processes. That's normal. Open chrome and you'll see more than that.
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  7. ComatoseRoses
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    Oh ok. Didn't know that. Thank you!
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