Multiple sessions of Excel in background

[albertan]

I had a recent update in my Excel 365 and what I see now is multiple excel sessions open in background. When I go to Task Manager I see a number of these sessions. When I double click on Excel file I get prompted that now my personal macro workbook will be in read only format. It's not only for Excel sessions actually. I also noticed that I get same issue for Chrome. Can somebody please help me what could be the issue and where I should look for help at Microsoft website maybe?

 

[jasonb75]

what could be the issue

There is no issue, it is meant to happen. It would have been doing it before the update, you just didn't notice it until now. I get the same thing on excel 2019, I fairly sure that it also happened with 2016, not sure about older versions. Chrome has also been doing it for a while.

In simple terms, it is done to make things run more efficiently.

 

[albertan]

Well, when I click on new excel workbook I get the prompt that Personal Macro Workbook now is in read only mode. So it means a new session. That is not what it was before. I don't want a new session and I want Personal Macro to be active regardless how many workbooks I have open.

 

[albertan]

I found this discussion on Microsoft's website and I'm looking into it.

Excel run in background too many process

What wrong with my computer. I see too many excel process are running in process in my computer without open any of it. You can see the screen below. Thank you [Moved from: Office / Excel / Windows 10

answers.microsoft.com

 

[jasonb75]

Multiple instances could simply be down to the method of opening workbooks, see

7 Ways to Open Multiple Instances of Excel - Gorilla BI

Learn how to open a new instance of Excel. Having a separate instance allows you to run an intensive task while you work in another instance.

excelgorilla.com

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Excel Personal Workbook showing as read only but it isn't

Hi, I have a macro set up in my personal workbook but the Personal workbook file is really annoying me. Every time I open an excel file a pop up says the personal workbook is locked for editing. I can only open the personal workbook as a read only meaning it can't be edited/saved etc. I have...

www.mrexcel.com

 

[albertan]

Sorry but none of these links you provided are applicable in this case. I don't use any of those ways to open a new session.

 

[jasonb75]

Could you screen capture the sessions in task manager please?
Multiple sessions show in one of 2 ways in the task manager, I want to see which one you have.

 

[albertan]

I was able to fix the issue I had. I did the clean boot and followed steps here and it worked.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ph/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows