Problems running Appliactions

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Window XP has been working just fine .....till now
My system will not open some appliaction or my computer, my documents or web access
And what it does open is very very slow. I have scaned with Norton...nothing found
Any ideas
 
Hi MTM,

Window XP has been working just fine .....till now.
My system will not open some appliaction or my computer, my documents or web access.
And what it does open is very very slow. I have scaned with Norton...nothing found.
Any ideas
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You've scanned for virus. Have you also scanned for malware?

Download, update and run the following free programs:
Ad-aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

Spybot S&D
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download

You might also look in Start > Run > msconfig
the startup tab and check what programs you are running at startup.

Good luck
 
Hi,

[...]


I ran a virus scan, no virus.

Once the program does open, it runs ok, but getting it to open takes forever.

How to I solve this?

Please respond. THANKS A MILLION!
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Have you run a scan looking for spyware?
Try with ad-aware and spybot, after updating them:
Ad-aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

Spybot S&D
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download

You could also go to Start > Run > msconfig
start up tab
disable all entries and reboot, if the problem disappears, then enable
them one at a time.

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;310560

Good luck
 
roger said:
Hi,

[...]


I ran a virus scan, no virus.

Once the program does open, it runs ok, but getting it to open takes forever.

How to I solve this?

Please respond. THANKS A MILLION!
Click to expand...

Have you run a scan looking for spyware?
Try with ad-aware and spybot, after updating them:
Ad-aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

Spybot S&D
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download

You could also go to Start > Run > msconfig
start up tab
disable all entries and reboot, if the problem disappears, then enable
them one at a time.

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;310560

Good luck
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I've done all of the above and the problem still exists!! I'm going a bit crazy here.
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It's almost like the computer has to "warm up" for 5 minutes after it's turned on and reaches the desktop.

After it does, the applications launch windows equal to the amount of times I'ver clicked on the icon. If I click on OUTLOOK ten times - in five minutes (and it takes that long) up come ten identical OUTLOOK Windows! This happens with all my programs.

Any other ideas?
 
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