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

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" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 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

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.

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"NoStop" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 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>

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Julian I-Do-Stuff

Some Vista stuff, but mostly just Stuff at http://berossus,blogspot.com

Julian wrote:

> "NoStop" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> 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>
>
Vista is a cancer. Ask anyone why their hard drive gets filled up so
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?

"NoStop" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Julian wrote:
>
>> "NoStop" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> 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>
>>
> Vista is a cancer. Ask anyone why their hard drive gets filled up so
> quickly.

That's not cancer, that's just subcutaneous fat... stop buying pizzas for
Vista

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Julian I-Do-Stuff

Some Vista stuff, but mostly just Stuff at http://berossus,blogspot.com