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[Calls]

NIS 2011
Vista Home Premium 32 bit

I use the windows sidebar gadget thing where it will show a clock a calandar, etc

Well just notice that when I open windows task manager, I see two instances of sidebar.exe
Both are listed as the owner user
when I log in under the admin account, there are 2 instances again, but owner as admin

is it normal to have 2 instances of sidebar.exe?
or is it malicious/suspicious sign?

[mmoyer · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your question, Calls. This is normal. From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd370867(v=vs.85).aspx: "In Windows Vista, the Sidebar starts multiple instances of the sidebar.exe process."

[Calls]

thank you