Wierd and Rare....

[Anonymous]

I got a problem that has only happen two or three times and it is a little annoying. I'm pretty sure it is not a virus because it is not very consistant. Sometimes, when I restart my computer, I end up not being able to open more than one window, if that makes sense. I'll give you an example. Say I am in AIM and Explorer and I can see the bar and see all the programs. However, when I get IM'd and want to check it blinks, but I cannot get it to pop up on my screen. It won't go over the window already open like usual. This happens with everything, not just AIM. I've never experienced anything like this. It's not that big of a deal but annoying when it happens. Any ideas?

-Ekia

[kevin]

it could just be your computer being slow, how much RAM do you have?

[Anonymous]

Guaranteed it's not that, I got a nice ass computer. Dell XPS, I don't remember the RAM, I think its 512.

[Blahages]

You could try running Adaware (http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10319876.html?tag=pop), which searches for and removes spyware. That might be messing up your system.

You could also try Defragmenting the Hard drive. (Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Defrag.

If you hit Control Alt Delete (preferably when the computer is acting up), and click on the preformance tab, what does it say for CPU usage, PF (Page file usage), Processes, and Total and Avaliable Physical Memory?

If you look down next to the time, in the taskbar, how many icons are loaded right there?

If there's a lot, especially ones you never, or rarely use, you might consider going to Start, Run, type in Msconfig, press enter, and navigate to the Startup tab. In that list of programs, you can uncheck any that you dont need, or feel you don't need. If you don't know what you're doing, it doesn't matter, because if you accidently remove something you want, you can always open msconfig again, and recheck it.

But, going through those steps could help a lot.

My computer's a little weird right now as well. I just had to close three tasks that I had closed earlier, because they weren't ended. They didn't show up for me, but they did on the process list. They were using 107, 70, and 40 meg of ram.

I also had something similar to your problem before. I would click something, and it would seem like it didn't open, but if I waited sometimes a minute, sometimes 5-10 minutes, it would open. It wasn't a speed issue either. It just sat there doing nothing and finally, started to try to open it.

I forget what I did to fix that though.

As for the virus thingy, even if you're sure it's not a virus, it couldn't hurt to check anyway. If you don't have an antivirus program, AVG (http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/AVG_AntiVirus_Free/1028312263/1) is pretty nice, or even running an online scanner (http://housecall.antivirus.com), which is also free does a nice job.[/url]

[Kiros]

i dont really think its any malware or adware problems... nor is it a virus...

could it be paging file corruption?
hmmm... a processor over load?
maybe doctor watson is having an error trying to debug an issue


hey, do u have the mouse-window focus option activated? (where if the mouse scrolls over a window, then the window will activate)

hmmm, i guess if none of these are the case of the problem, then try terminating explorer.exe and restarting it