WSS having two OWSTIMER.EXE (v11 and v12) running at the same time

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Published on 2010-03-30T09:51:19Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 9:53 UTC
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I've just found that my WSS 3.0 server had two OWSTIMER.EXE services running:

  • SharePoint Timer Service
    v11
    "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\60\BIN\OWSTIMER.EXE"
  • Windows SharePoint Services Timer
    v12
    "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\BIN\OWSTIMER.EXE"

Since I'm running WSS v3, I was expecting to have only one SharePoint Timer instance, and that should be the one in th "12" folder.
Should I just stop the other service and keep only the "Windows SharePoint Services Timer" (v12) running?

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