What causes "system call failed" and there are hanging ie processes?

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Published on 2014-06-10T15:24:04Z Indexed on 2014/06/10 15:28 UTC
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System: Windows 7 Home Premium IE: 11.0.9600.17107

When I have had many, many apps and windows open, sometimes I'll try to access a folder and get a dialog that says "System Call Failed". I have found the fix for it is to open the task manager and End Process Tree on iexplore.exe and iexplore.exe *32. Often times there will be several of these even when I have closed all my browser windows.

Does anyone have any experience with this error?

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