Why does IE 11 sometime end up under SmartBear TestComplete in Task Manager

Question

&nbsp;Often when I close the IE 11 browser via TestComplete the Iinternet Explorer Apps gets moved/displayed under the SmartBear TestComplete app. This then causes me a problem when trying to open the IE browser.I attached an image of the problem.There seems to be something in the way I am closing or terminating the IE browser but I have yet to figure it out or come up with a short script that will consistently reproduce it.

marsha_r · Answer

Is IE11 in your list of tested apps?

kevin_kapell · Answer

Marsha I do not understand your question. Where would this list be?

marsha_r · Answer

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/tested-apps/about.html

kevin_kapell · Answer

OK Marsha_R, I remember what this is now. We do have Chrome listed as we need to launch that a specific way in order to find objects in a particular window but no other browser is listed there.

tristaanogre · Answer

Even so, one of the things about IE is that it almost always spawns two processes.&nbsp; And sometimes, even outside of TestComplete's test cases, closing the IE browser does not always end all the processes.&nbsp; I've seen this happen multiple times.
&nbsp;
For this reason, we use the following code to close IE
&nbsp;
function closeIEInstance() {
    var counter = 0;
    var browser;
    browser = Sys.WaitBrowser('iexplore', 1000);
    while((browser.Exists) &amp;&amp; (counter &lt; 60)){
        counter++;
        browser.Terminate();
        browser = Sys.WaitBrowser('iexplore', 1000);
    }  
}

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