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04-01-2008
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| | Drowning in Tasks - Help? Vista HP, SP1 I rebooted my system at about 18:30 and it's now 22:30 and now I have 47 separate Taskeng.exe processes running - need help in stopping them from mutliplying further! I can't tell from the Process tab of the Task Manager what the taskeng.exe processes refer to, and the Task Scheduler says there are only 8 running tasks. There are 5 tasks that I created myself and know about, and they all say under Settings "Don't start a new instance" if already running. I can find all these tasks in the Process Tab of the Task Manager via the Process ID, where I see that the apps they started appear in the Image Name column (rather than as taskeng.exe processes). In trying to work out the rest I looked at the "Command Line" column of Task Manager Processes which shows that each taskeng.exe has a long {hex}code assocaited with it - the {HEX} being what I assume are GUID's of some description but since they don't correspond to the "Correlation ID" codes in the Task Scheduler "History" I'm lost... Can anyone suggest how to work out what is going on or how to stop the endless multiplication of tasks? TIA -- Julian I-Do-Stuff Some Vista stuff, but mostly just Stuff at http://berossus,blogspot.com |
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04-01-2008
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| | Re: Drowning in Tasks - Help? Aha! Looks like a buglet from RC1 that leaked through into SP1 proper... (corrupt User_Feed_Synchronisation)... The answer is here http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/...7879&SiteID=17 Thanks to the guys there for sorting this one out... "Julian" <msforums@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:eDohtlDlIHA.4076@xxxxxx Quote: > Vista HP, SP1 > > I rebooted my system at about 18:30 and it's now 22:30 and now I have 47 > separate Taskeng.exe processes running - need help in stopping them from > mutliplying further! > > I can't tell from the Process tab of the Task Manager what the taskeng.exe > processes refer to, and the Task Scheduler says there are only 8 running > tasks. > > There are 5 tasks that I created myself and know about, and they all say > under Settings "Don't start a new instance" if already running. I can find > all these tasks in the Process Tab of the Task Manager via the Process ID, > where I see that the apps they started appear in the Image Name column > (rather than as taskeng.exe processes). > > In trying to work out the rest I looked at the "Command Line" column of > Task Manager Processes which shows that each taskeng.exe has a long > {hex}code assocaited with it - the {HEX} being what I assume are GUID's of > some description but since they don't correspond to the "Correlation ID" > codes in the Task Scheduler "History" I'm lost... > > Can anyone suggest how to work out what is going on or how to stop the > endless multiplication of tasks? > > TIA > -- > Julian I-Do-Stuff > > Some Vista stuff, but mostly just Stuff at http://berossus,blogspot.com Julian I-Do-Stuff Some Vista stuff, but mostly just Stuff at http://berossus,blogspot.com |
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04-01-2008
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| | Re: Drowning in Tasks - Help? Julian wrote: Quote: > Vista HP, SP1 > > I rebooted my system at about 18:30 and it's now 22:30 and now I have 47 > separate Taskeng.exe processes running - need help in stopping them from > mutliplying further! > Cheers. -- A US president declared war on poverty. Poverty won. Another US president declared a war on drugs. Drugs won. This US president declared a war on terror. Terror won. Next? |
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04-02-2008
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| | Re: Drowning in Tasks - Help? "NoStop" <nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:fsunf262uug@xxxxxx Quote: > Julian wrote: > Quote: >> Vista HP, SP1 >> >> I rebooted my system at about 18:30 and it's now 22:30 and now I have 47 >> separate Taskeng.exe processes running - need help in stopping them from >> mutliplying further! >> > > Cheers. LOL.... but Hmmmm... it's not actually a living thing and it can't actually reproduce without external "machinery". Possibly. From another perspective though, propagating errors in self-reproducing and self-modifying code without adequate error-checking and combined with inadequate apoptotic protection leading to eventual collapse of the whole organism suggest familial carcinoma. "Vista SP1 Prone to Cancer" might be a closer <g> -- Julian I-Do-Stuff Some Vista stuff, but mostly just Stuff at http://berossus,blogspot.com |
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04-02-2008
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| | Re: Drowning in Tasks - Help? Julian wrote: Quote: > "NoStop" <nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:fsunf262uug@xxxxxx Quote: >> Julian wrote: >> Quote: >>> Vista HP, SP1 >>> >>> I rebooted my system at about 18:30 and it's now 22:30 and now I have 47 >>> separate Taskeng.exe processes running - need help in stopping them from >>> mutliplying further! >>> >> >> Cheers. > > LOL.... but Hmmmm... it's not actually a living thing and it can't > actually reproduce without external "machinery". Possibly. > > From another perspective though, propagating errors in self-reproducing > and self-modifying code without adequate error-checking and combined with > inadequate apoptotic protection leading to eventual collapse of the whole > organism suggest familial carcinoma. > > "Vista SP1 Prone to Cancer" might be a closer <g> > quickly. Cheers. -- A US president declared war on poverty. Poverty won. Another US president declared a war on drugs. Drugs won. This US president declared a war on terror. Terror won. Next? |
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04-02-2008
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| | Re: Drowning in Tasks - Help? "NoStop" <nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:ft07ma325nd@xxxxxx Quote: > Julian wrote: > Quote: >> "NoStop" <nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message >> news:fsunf262uug@xxxxxx Quote: >>> Julian wrote: >>> >>>> Vista HP, SP1 >>>> >>>> I rebooted my system at about 18:30 and it's now 22:30 and now I have >>>> 47 >>>> separate Taskeng.exe processes running - need help in stopping them >>>> from >>>> mutliplying further! >>>> >>> Are you suggesting that Vista is a virus? >>> >>> Cheers. >> >> LOL.... but Hmmmm... it's not actually a living thing and it can't >> actually reproduce without external "machinery". Possibly. >> >> From another perspective though, propagating errors in self-reproducing >> and self-modifying code without adequate error-checking and combined with >> inadequate apoptotic protection leading to eventual collapse of the whole >> organism suggest familial carcinoma. >> >> "Vista SP1 Prone to Cancer" might be a closer <g> >> > quickly. Vista -- Julian I-Do-Stuff Some Vista stuff, but mostly just Stuff at http://berossus,blogspot.com |
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