Besides runnng extremely slow, my open windows won't close when I try to x them. They reactivate themselves. When I control, alt, delete, ALL the windows I have open close instead of just one.Start by eliminating some running programs, there may be some conflict......Click Start>RUN>TYPE MSCONFG click OK

click on the "start up" tab click on "disable all", click "apply", click OK, then restart the computer.........open some programs and then try to close them to see if the problem remains


Disabling all those programs, will help the overall speed of your system, whether or not the problem with the windows goes away..Thank you for this information - however, when I pull up 'run' and put in MSCONFG it SAYS it can't be found. So now what?typo in his post- it should be MSCONFIG.

To get a better idea of what the system is doing; go to SysInternals WEBSITE, download, unzip, and run Process Explorer. This is the "task manager" program Microsoft should have provided, and since they now own "SysInternals"; I guess they do.also as an alternative to MSCONFIG you can use the sysinternals "Autoruns" utility. Quote from: mballen on AUGUST 10, 2009, 11:35:59 AM

Thank you for this information - however, when I pull up 'run' and put in MSCONFG it says it can't be found. So now what?