EXCEL.EXE*32 remains running after closing Excel 2013 every other time

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I’ve noticed that every other time that I open Excel 2013 and then close it, the EXCEL.EXE*32 process remains running in the Task Manager.

This doesn’t sound like a very big problem, but it also means that my PERSONAL.XLSB doesn’t run every other time that I start Excel, which means that my macros in PERSONAL.XLSB are not available.

If I manually kill the EXCEL.EXE*32 process before restarting Excel, then the PERSONAL.XLSB file gets loaded properly and my macros are available.

I also noticed that it has nothing to do with actually running any macros. I can reproduce this problem by the following steps:

1) Reboot machine
2) Start Excel 2013 with a blank workbook. (macros are available)
3) Close Excel (EXCEL.EXE*32 remains running in Task Manager)
4) Start Excel 2013 with a blank workbook. (macros are NOT available)
(A second EXCEL.EXE*32 process starts and then ends after a couple of seconds)
5) Close Excel (EXCEL.EXE*32 is no longer running in Task Manager)

Steps 2 through 5 are then repeatable over and over.

Why does the EXCEL.EXE*32 only die after every second time Excel is opened and closed?

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I would guess it’s some code that is running automatically, either in an add-in or in your personal macro workbook. If you hold Ctrl down while opening Excel and answer Yes to open it in safe mode, then close it down, do you still see the process left running?

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Did this always occur? Or did it begin after updates were installed?

You might try uninstalling and reinstalling Excel and see if this solves the issue.

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Hi JoeCool

..my Excel2013 doesn’t do what yours is doing.
..have you checked what’s in your XLSTART folder?
..have you tried rory’s suggestion yet?

zeddy

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