When I pack a Tk script into an .exe in Windows 10 using Strawberryperl 5.28 and I run it, I can see in task manager that TWO instances of my application are running. They have the same name but different PID and different memory usage: A) is very small; B) is bigger. Why this? I noticed this because I was trying to kill my application from outside Perl (to perform an update which requires my application to be killed), and I could kill it. I noticed that the external updater kills only A), not B). The GUI still is shown and seems to work perfectly, even without A). I need to manually kill B) to kill (both) instances. Now my questions:

Is this normal?

It is possible prevent it (when I packed with PerlApp I had only once instance)?

In reply to PAR pp Windows 2 instances by IB2017

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