How to Delete duplicate Windows Widget program? (With Image)

Question

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I've been struggling with a mild memory leak issue recently, and went into Task Manager to see that there seem to be two Windows Widgets tasks running. One task is named "Search," while the other is named properly. I tried right-clicking it and ending the task, but it keeps coming back. Restarting doesn't work either. The renamed task takes up more memory on my computer, so I want to find a way to remove it.

Answer 1

That is normal, Windows is a multi-threaded operating system, in Windows, many processes are spilt into separate smaller sub-processes so the sub-processes can run on the various cores and threads on your processor, this makes Windows processes faster, also the Search process and Widget process are two separate processes in Windows.