JKAsiege

Lots of applications, Firefox, Itunes, Winrar, explorer.exe, and other things will not show up on screen - however the process shows up in the task manager as if it was running.

For instance, I'll start up Itunes - and it will not show up on screen - but the process shows that it is in fact running. (After a few tries, I've been able to get some things to start.)

Tried all the generic stuff, restarting, virus scan, etc.

happens to me sometimes with select programs, no idea what the culprit is.

try a system restore?

Magyk wrote:Itunes

Well, that's your problem right thar....

~archi

I have this problem when i start my computer. I can launch some programs, but some don't, even though I can see the process. After 15 min, finally, these programs are launched...

lol
weirid rly,well i know its brutal but maybe u try hard disk format ?

I know where it comes from lol, it's due to a microsoft update that I cannot remove... Anyway i'll install Windows 7 soon

indeed the only good way to remove an update is thru system restore. but are you sure you can't do it thru add/remove programs? you'd have to decipher which one it is, since they had odd names...

please don't tell me you have vista.

Can som1 enlight me with Windows 7? Is it good?

Turky wrote:indeed the only good way to remove an update is thru system restore. but are you sure you can't do it thru add/remove programs? you'd have to decipher which one it is, since they had odd names...

please don't tell me you have vista.

I have vista :s I tried to install XP instead, but I dunno why, Acer hard disks only support Vista... The installation of XP failed, and I don't wanna experiment things to force the installation of XP. So I wait lol

Well that's an update, and when I click on this update in the list, there is no "modify/delete" button. I checked on the microsoft help center, and they said that this update cannot be removed

@dj : well it cannot be worst than Vista... I read some magazines though, and they said it wasn't that bad. But I may buy a mac too, I'm bored of Windows...
Anyway, you can download it for free as a beta version, and try out.

Never heard of a HDD only supporting one OS.

You know you probably have to format the drive first, right?

~archi