Exe Files Not Running - Desk Top Freezes
Aug 29, 2005
I have an Alienware Pentium 4 PC which is refusing to run a number of programmes. When I double click I get the hour glass but then the pointer returns back to an arrow and its as if the programme never started. I've check the apps I have open and its not listed. I've tried reinstalling the application and it makes no difference. I also have a problem where my desk top freezes so I can't click on anything but my mouse still drives the pointer. I ran a hard disk check using a utility from Seagate and it found errors with the metafiles and file structure in section one of my drive.
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Dec 9, 2008
my computer is running slow and freezes. I checked the task manager and explorer.exe is fluctuating continually from 3% to 97% even with no progs open It just goes up and down . I am running xp pro. I have tried doing a clean boot but cant as even tho I have admin rights it tells me.
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May 27, 2005
Hi I hope someone can help, I am using windows XP home edition. my comp. is running very slow and programs keep saying not responding ,both online and offline. it takes a long tiome to starrt up and shut down and when i try to change or do more than one thing at a time my computer freezeup on me.
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Mar 3, 2006
recently have had issues with the system freezing. It's usually when I have Trillian running, with another program or two at the same time. Like Office or Napster or both. The entire system freezes, where I can't even hit ctrl-alt-del to close on of the programs. I am on Windows XP on an HP Pavilion Laptop. This is a very recent development...and I'm not sure if somehow something has been downloaded to cause this. The only new program installed was The Sims.
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Oct 26, 2009
I got blue screen of death on my laptop and it keeps on restarting before the window can actually boot up. It show's this message and reboots every single time when starting up Windows XP. I tried recovering the windows from the Recovery CD but it goes to the Gateway Symbol n freezes there and I have to restart the system every single time and try to boot from the recovery CD. it goes searching for recovery date on the hard drive and if not found any it will boot the recovery cd. but it goes to this scan and just freezes there with running the recovery data from the cd.
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Sep 12, 2006
I have windows xp and when I am on the internet the computer is always freezing up or running very slow and I will have to reboot the computer. I have 512mb of ram, 60 gig hard drive.
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Jan 31, 2008
My computer is running quite slow. When I open an internet site it freezes and error message pops up. What should I do?
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Mar 5, 2007
Some days it will run perfectly fine, but most of the time it's so slow, and freezes frequently. My comp is slow with programs (especially opening) and also on the internet. Aso, my processing light is always on, no flicker, just a solid light. I usually get frustrated and shut it down. I've ran a lot of anti-spyware, defrags, and disk cleanups. The disk cleanups used to allow it to run a lot faster, but now it doesn't help one bit. I'm thinking I'm just low on RAM,
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Jan 7, 2009
I would really appreciate some advice concerning a troublesome computer.A friend who was running Windows XP on a two-years old computer began to experience occasional freezes and blue screens without any apparent pattern in program or usage. It eventually got so bad that we removed most of his installed software other than the essential, but problems continued. We then made a repair installation of Windows XP from the Dell OS installation disk, after which the computer would fall over every time after initial boot up. With sinking heart (of course, he had no image, but had data backups) we then formatted the hard disk and executed a fresh installation of Windows XP.
Windows now boots but the Windows directories contain very few folders or files. The CD drive can only be read perhaps 50% of the time. Most program installation files refuse to run, but some do. One installation disk which will not run is his internet installation. The computer continues to display sporadic blue screens.Before it goes out the window can anyone suggest our next course of enquiry?
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Jul 7, 2005
The my computer window instantly opens with all the correct icons displayed on the lest (view system information add remove programs change a setting...) but it shows no drives and I cannot click on anything. If I hit control alt delete it is reported as not responding but after about 45 seconds the rest of the icons show up. I open control pannel and try to open the system folder and nothing happens. I tried running nortons system works windoctor but after the cd launches it freezes. After about 3 hours of working on it I gave up and reinstalled windows ( i did the windows repair so I didn't lose program files and such, i did not re-initialize). After re-installing everything was going fine until last night. The same exact thing is occuring again. Ive attempted running Ad-aware and its locking up after it finds a few files, I have no clue what its finding since its locking up. Ive tried booting in safe mode but it locks up at mup.sys. Their is also no internet connection IE or Firefox can find but when I open the network connections folder it says that I am connected. Im wondering if its a bad HDD or if I've got some delayed action virus or something. Neither seems to likely to me since if it was the HDD when i ran a HDD scan (in dos from the win repair cd) it comes across as fine and the virus would have to be a delayed action one or something since it keeps hitting almost exactly a week after the problems occur.
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Feb 17, 2005
My IE and MSN messenger freezes when I open it. But if I unplug the internet connection it works. I think there is a problem with wininet.dll but I can't replace it. I upgraded to SP2 (XP) but it doesnt help. I scanned and cleaned it with Spybot. I also ran Adaware but it freezes at a point SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsShareDLLs. I can't clear my temporary internet files either even if I do it manually.
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Jan 4, 2005
I did remove virus efeected files and my PC is behaving badly, it responds very slow to commands and freezes. Here is the log. Can anybody help me to resore my computer
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Aug 16, 2009
i started a clean install of xp sp3 from a genuine disc, but after formatting the partition and copying files and restarting, the screen gets stuck and all i get is the cursor blinking furiously. I then tried to install some not-so-genuine copies, but no matter what i use, its the same problem. I tried installing linux and it went fine.
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Jul 25, 2008
I have a new computer my son put togeather and every time it is turned on the windows background comes on,the icons apear for only a few seconds then disappear leaving only the windows background and no start menu. The computer will still work through the task manager feature (ctrl+alt+delete) and also starts fine in safe mode and appears to work fine. Could it be my video cards driver That might not be xp approved. It is a XFX nForce 680i motherboard & a EVGA 8800 gs video card. This problem has existed from the birth of this computer.
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Aug 25, 2005
I've cleaned up my computer with ad ware, spy-bot, etc. now when i turn on my computer my desk top does not come up. my documents come up. how can i go back to desk top
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Nov 6, 2006
I have a PC running win xp and it recently crashed and as a result I had to re-install windows and since then everything appear to be ok apart from the fact that the icons on the desktop are over laying one another. If I right click the desk top and select 'arrange icons by' it makes no difference whatever combination of setting I chose for the desk top settings.
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Jun 30, 2008
The icons on my desk top have recently been highlighted on the name portion of the icon before my desk top failed to load - I don't know if that means anything or not but thought I'd mention it. When I start my computer it begins the normal start up process and appears to be okay until it gets to the splash screen: Microsoft Windows xp Home Edition, that's as far as I can get, nothing on my desk top loads. I went into safe mode and ran a complete scan (Norton) for any viruses and there wasn't any detected. I did a registry repair too to no avail. Prior to this I tried a system restore to get rid of the highlighted icons on my desk top and for some reason and each time I tried it it said no changes had been made; I tried it again in safe mode and the same thing.
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Nov 1, 2008
On boots or reboots my desktop is not showing up. Comes up to the "my computer" screen. If i close this out my desktop is there.
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Oct 10, 2009
Desk top cleaner appears to run by its self only after computer is left on for 4 plus hours inactive i have turned off desk top cleaner and verified it is off but still seems to do it randomly,if that is what is causing the following - all non ms icons are removed from desk top all email adresses are gone all ie explorer pages and favorites history ect. gone allpersonal documents are gone - I can find the links to my papers and pictures in my computer properties [then searching all the files] all but pictures when clicked say link is bad and do i want to delete Its like my computer is doing a fresh install of the whole system with out a reboot or such also desk top clean up folder is gone have tried many ways to find it tried system restore there is not a earler restore point but if two weeks laterthen there are some but none earlier thanthis last reinstall.
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Jun 5, 2010
when I double click OR right click open on my desktop icons, they don't do anything, then my desktop is frozen and I have to shutdown computer and reboot. Desktop is UN frozen again, until I try to open another shortcut icon. Not All of them do this, but a lot of them. These are desktop icons/shortcuts I put on the desktop.
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Jan 14, 2009
When I turn the computer on It goes through the motions and I can see the background but not the desktop. It will sit for a while with the background showing then It will go to the log on screen and when I click owner, It will try to log on and then jump back to logging off.
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Sep 10, 2008
I've recently reformatted and re-installed Windows on my computer. Now, some exe files won't run properly. By not running properly, I mean they are not running at all. I'll double click on an icon, the file flashes up in task manager for a second and then vanishes.
This problem is apparent with IE, RPG Maker XP install files and others. I do have AV's on my comp, and they do scan regularly.
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Mar 11, 2005
I am new to this site.. i have installed windows xp home edition with sp2. how do i go directly to my desk top without that bothersome log on window.
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Jan 16, 2005
Plugged external monitor into sony laptop with XP. Desktop background shows up on new monitor. Desktop icons do not. Monitor is enabled. Have checked the "show desktop" box.
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Oct 9, 2010
I have a win xp sp2. after installing ie7, i got a blank desk top with iertutil.dll missing. now i can only access through task manager. get messages ordinal 173 not found in---, ordinal 313 not found --, explorer not found. even if i try to remove ie, it does not get removed.
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Apr 26, 2010
why computer is highlighting desktop icons?
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Aug 11, 2005
All of a sudden when i go to move a desk top i con it pops back to where it was. i know there is a wawy to change this but i just can't think of it.i have been to right click desk top and all and lock desk top is not checked.
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Sep 2, 2004
Here is an very easy way to remove the build number from your desktop. Just follow the directions below to remove it.
Right click on the desktop
Expand arrange icons by
Click on lock items to desktop
The build number will be gone
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May 21, 2008
Sometimes when I open control panel all the desk top icons loose there identity and go generic. After about 30 seconds they will go back normal. They don't do it every time and some time not all will do it.
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Aug 9, 2007
I have suddenly have blue highlights on my desk icons. windows xp home edition, dsl. have quaranted 2 trojans ... I also had an error message...syntax error, http://www.seek-media.com.
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Jun 17, 2010
I have HCL Core 2 Duo Desk top slim model it'm having ssssss sound whin system start what i have to do.i have check system fan is OK.
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