NT 4.0 Workstation question

Jeff · Guest

I have an NT 4.0 workstation that leaves all occurances of
EXPLORER.EXE image name in the PROCESSES tab of Task Manager.

I believe the only explorer.exe that should be displayed is the one
for the Desktop. If I open and close Windows Explorer, I get another
EXPLORER.EXE that doesn't go away until I re-boot. I have had over 20
of those puppies showing when I had no Windows Explorers open. The
only way to clear them is a re-boot. If I kill the wrong process, my
desktop disappears.

Has anyone had experience with EXPLORER.EXE processes that never go
away when they should? This is the only one that won't go away. The
IEXPLORE's behave quite nicely.