Certain program windows stay minimized

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I searched around and couldn't find an answer to this ... thanks for the help
Microsoft gurus


Problem started with Internet Explorer 6 (I'm running XP Homed edition,
SP2), when I started the program, it would just remain minimized. I could
close it by right-click but I couldn't do anything else with it.

So I installed Mozilla Firefox so I would have some method to figure out why
this was happening. I couldn't find any solid suggestions anywhere so I did
a system restore to two days ago.

This appeared to solve the problem at first (IE 6 now works how it always
has), but then my system-side e-mail client started having the same problem
except I can't even get a menu to come up when I right-click it. I have
tried changing the properties of the launch icon to 'Maximize' and I get the
same results. The only way I can exit the program is to End Task in Task
Manager.


Thanks for the help


Mike M

 

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Also, other things you should know:


I'm running Mcafee's Security Suite, with Prevx, and Ad-Aware. I ran a full
scan a few hours before this problem started happening. I found a trojan,
and since Mcafee couldn't delete it, I deleted all the files in my Local
Settings/Temp folder.

I did find a similar situation about corrupted system files in another
thread, so I put my XP disk in and ran "sfc /scannow"


The problem remains