whats going on???? Problems!

[gnarly]

Hello,

I need help.

Here are my problems.

I will be running programs fine after first starting up my computer, then if i exit the programs and let my comp sit for a while or if i go surf the web, and then go back and try to start a program either from my desktop or start menu i will get the hourglass cursor and my hd light will blink for a few seconds and then nothing happens. In order to get them working again i have to re-start my comp.
I have tried all the different compatibility choices for the programs but it still does this.

Also i get a lot of not responding messages when on the web or when i try to use windows media player after being on my comp for a while. And then it wants me to send an error report.



What is happening?
Any ideas?

PLEASE HELP!

I bought my comp in november and it came with xp home ed.

Here are my comp specs:

Hp pavillion XT963
1.2 Ghz
384 meg ram
geforce 2 card 32 mb


Thanks for your time,
gnarly

🙁

 

[Lonman]

What programs specifically? It doesn't sound like they're exiting cleanly... leaving something running in the background that won't allow them to start back up again. You can press ctrl+alt+del and bring up the task manager to see what's running... you may be able to identify a program file that's running, kill it, and try to launch the program again.

 

[gnarly]

😀

WOOHOO!!! Thanks Lonman that was the problem.

I only run counter-strike, worldcraft, and win media player from my desktop.

After playing counter-strike for about an hour i exited out to my desktop and tried to start up worldcraft, and got nothing, so i did what u said and it turned out counter-strike was still running even though i had exited out of it.

As soon as i end tasked it worldcraft started up. 🙂

Thanks so much for your advice,
gnarly