Help starting Windows programs

[markprior22]

I've run into a very strange situation with one program in particular. First, some background:

On Easter weekend, my computer became corrupt and nothing would happen when I double clicked an icon. Tried right clicking and selecting "open" also and nothing would happen. I called tech support several times, go nowhere and decided to reformat my hard drive.

Everything has went pretty well since then, but within the last week or so, the same thing is happening with a proprietary program I use for work. The saving grace is that I can get it to work by rebooting. I don't understand why this is happening though. Anyone seen this problem before?

I have a 1.8 GHz laptop, Win XP with SP 2 and latest Windows Updates. 512 RAM and plenty of HD space.

[hhiipp]

The only time I have experienced a similar problem is when I had been playing a game for quite some time that has a memory leak and it would just suck my resources dry and wouldn't allow me to open any other programs, even if I had shut everything I had open down. Never did find a fix for it though, just learned to tolerate the inconveneince.

[sterlingice]

I'm having somewhat flukey problems with my computer of late, too. First, I had my DVD burner kindof die on me (Dies 1% in using either Nero or the Iomega program even with latest firmware and updates on everything). And now, certain programs just take forever on load up- Firefox being one. I'll start it up and then have to wait about 10 seconds before I can do anything as Firefox is essentially frozen but other proggies work just fine (but don't try to start anything new during this time). Which makes no sense (I'm running an Athlon64 2800 and 512 RAM). I'm suspecting a hard drive failure but maybe it's something else. Wonder if something that tons of people use like ZoneAlarm or a bad Windows update or something is going around.

SI

[Airhog]

mark: the first time it sounds like you got a virus. One time my brother got a virus that did the exact same thing. Of course nothing would load, not even windows explorer.

[MizzouRah]

Spyware also does some crazy things to Windows.


Todd

[markprior22]

Yeah...I'm gonna really focus on keeping my system clean....damn...there goes the porn:cool:

Thanks for the thoughts fellows

[hhiipp]

By the way, don't let your rough start yesterday get you down. I realize you gave up 7 runs in the 5th but you can't let that bother you, plus the guys should have had your back and scored some of those 13 runners that they left on base.

Also, let Kerry know we're hoping his arm gets better soon.