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corey
OK, nobody is probably going to be able to help with
this, but in the last week or so, occasionally when I try
to open a new program (email program, Word, whatever) the
cursor goes to the 'hourglass' for a few seconds and then
nothing, the program won't open. Whenever this happens, I
can't open any programs not already running, although the
programs already running continue to function properly.
When this happens my first reaction is to reboot, but
WinXP won't even do this, the same thing happens (i.e.
nothing) when I try to restart from the Start menu, and I
have to 'power off' to get the machine to shut down. It
seems that if I wait long enough (3-5 minutes), then all
the programs I attempted to start all pop up at once.
This seems to me to be surely an OS problem, as it
doesn't seem to matter what programs are running or what
I am trying to run when the problem occurs. I am running
Windows XP Home (fully updated), clean install, on a Sony
PCG-R505TL laptop, with 192 MB RAM and a 15 Gig HD.
this, but in the last week or so, occasionally when I try
to open a new program (email program, Word, whatever) the
cursor goes to the 'hourglass' for a few seconds and then
nothing, the program won't open. Whenever this happens, I
can't open any programs not already running, although the
programs already running continue to function properly.
When this happens my first reaction is to reboot, but
WinXP won't even do this, the same thing happens (i.e.
nothing) when I try to restart from the Start menu, and I
have to 'power off' to get the machine to shut down. It
seems that if I wait long enough (3-5 minutes), then all
the programs I attempted to start all pop up at once.
This seems to me to be surely an OS problem, as it
doesn't seem to matter what programs are running or what
I am trying to run when the problem occurs. I am running
Windows XP Home (fully updated), clean install, on a Sony
PCG-R505TL laptop, with 192 MB RAM and a 15 Gig HD.