Is it normal for windows to create a bunch of threads for my program?

[knn9]

Just wondering why task manager shows my program starting with 2 threads and then jumping to 16 when I create another thread. Hoping this is normal behavior and not a bug in my code...

It's Windows 8 if it matters.

[kbw]

The two threads might be, but if you create one more thread, you'd expect the thread count to be three.

[Disch]

Note that libs you're using (including WinAPI) may be launching their own threads. So not all of the threads associated with your process are necessarily threads your code is creating.

[knn9]

Yeah.. I notice now that it jumps to 16 threads as soon as I open a file dialog box. I think that's it then, thanks.