My computer seems to be really slow when i open and close boxes - they overlap or i get the message 'This programme is not responding' what does this mean and what can i do?
View 5 Repliesi have windows xp and here lately my computer quits responding. Sometimes when I open a program, my computer will start doing it's thing then all of a sudden it quits and I'll hit my task manager and it says that the programs is not responding. Same thing with my cd rom, I'll put in a disc and my computer acts like it's going to start and then I get the same message. That it's not responding. What is it that makes it do that? And what can I do about it? It's starting to get annoying.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI was just wondering if someone can look @ my Hijack, and tell me want is wong with it.
Also When I go into my config, And then Startup, there are alot of progroram which are open. I don't know which to close or leave open.
I can't close programs and computer sometimes freezes Is it because of my AntiViruus programs or Boot Search, Windows XP Home Edition.
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Have had a problem for some time now. Program keep looking up and then get this error report. Have done a registry clean,
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I ran Trend antivirus program and Webroot spysweeper, but no problems identified. I keep getting messages from Bigfix that a problem was encountered but by then I can't get Bigfix to open because it's locked up. I ran a dxdiag but it showed no problems either. The problem started when I ran the Uniblue registry sweeper which I thought was free. It identified some old stuff but charged a fee to fix it, so I deleted Uniblue. I went into regedit and removed Uniblue and while I was there I removed several old games from Gamehouse that had been uninstalled over the past year. I swear I didn't touch anything else in the registry! Please keep responses simple and specific as I don't know much about computers.
I just tried to open Incredimail and got the following message: IncMail.exe Application Error: The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000044). Click on OK to terminate the application. Surprisingly, my computer didn't lock up yet and I was able to return here to edit my post, but a crash is coming....
Several times a day when trying to open certain sites I get a pop-up telling me "This program is not responding" - I have no idea why this happens, it isn't just one program - it could be anything. Does anyone know why this is happening and what can be done about it.
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View 5 Replies View RelatedWhen shutting down my computer, I get a box that pops up and says program not responding C:documents/settings (that's the most I can see.. I can't see the whole path name). When I click on the end now, the error goes away and the computer shuts down properly. I looked in the task manager to see if anything was running and I didn't see anything and all programs look to be shut down before I tried to shut the computer down. I have Windows XP and I don't understand why something in C:documents/setting would be doing this.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a three month old HP Pavilion a1624 , 250GB HD and 1GB memory, with WinXP Media Center Edition 2005, with ZAPro, NAV 2007 and use Firefox 2.0 (I get the same problem using Firefox and IE6). I connect to the internet through a wireless network to cable modem. When surfing internet sites things go good for a while then it hangs up. When I click a shortcut or type in a url it starts to go then stops. The active browser icon turns back to just a pointer and when I do the ALT-CTRL-DEL, the task manager indicates, in two separate lines entries, that the program is not responding. I select End Task and at that point I can't connect to any site. I reboot and everything goes normal for a while then, boom, the same thing happens. This happens about every hour or so of use. I have tried running an ethernet cable directly from my PC to the router, but still have the problem. Other PCs on the wireless network have no problem.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have recently had Explorer ,Mozilla thunderbird,Hijack this etc not opening and the error message "This program is not responding ......"Click end now to end program .There is alot of hang time and then sometimes it all works like it should.To get Hijack to do log below I had to try 8 times before error message did not appear.I have run up to date Adaware pro , Norton Anti virus , Moosft The Cleaner and all clear(did have trojan Lodear but removed all threats.Pepper mill sometimes hangs on middle of screen for 5 mins before I can do anything.Have done a restore point but has not helped.Feel something in background clashing but not sure how to find it ??? Although I leave on most of the time computer takes an age to re boot ...dont feel like doing format but wonder if that is solution.
View 6 Replies View RelatedWhen I log off, a window appears called "Device10 Notification Window", or maybe "Device IO Notification Window". After this window runs for a while, a Program Not Responding error occurs. This started last night, after uninstalling Yahoo Widgets.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have Internet Explorer 7 for browser use outlook express for mail and XP is my Operating System. My daughter has XP and uses Sea Monkey for browser and mail program. I, my daughter and other people have commented that at different times their computers and mine all freeze and you get a program not responding message. In a matter of seconds or maybe a minute it clears and everything resumes as before slow down. All different computers, XP for Oerating System etc. and we all experience the slow down. Any comments on this. Could it be XP.I had some problems with Internet Explorer 7 at first but after some experience with it I'm satisfied with it.
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I could still click the dropdown to choose between domains but couldnt enter a username and password so had to hard reboot the machine
I have windows xp and for the last couple of weeks has been running very slow.Is there a program I can install to find out whats going on?
View 8 Replies View Relatedmy work colleagues is having trouble with a slow-running computer i thought I'd look at her startup options and make sure there isn't something running that doesn't need to be. I ran msconfig and looked at what she had going at startup, but only the necessary items were checked there. So I took a look at the services panel, using a list from blackviper.com to make sure her computer's settings matched up with those recommendation. However, one of the services listed isn't on the blackviper.com list: Winkcpw. Nor did I get any hits for the name of the service on either Google or using Yahoo search. I'm wondering if anyone here knows what the program is and whether it should be running at all.
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