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Windows stop opening - Resource leak or virus?
Intermittently I'm experiencing problems where windows either stop
opening or won't display fully, pull down menus and context menu's fail to display etc etc. It seems like the OS has run out of gui resources. This is not specific to any program, for example, alt-tab stops functioning normally, the window displaying the icons does not appear and selecting alt-tab simply switches from one program to the next (without waiting for the keyup from the alt-tab). After closing a window or program, things function normally again, however, after a while (20min-hour) the problem occurs again. Gradually I end up having to reboot as I am forced to close more and more programs until I'm only able to have a few open and it becomes unworkable. I've experienced this problem on Windows XP SP2, Vista both on my laptop and now on a desktop PC running Windows XP SP2 at work. I'm worried that this may be a virus not being detected by either Windows Defender or my work's virus detection solution. Can anyone help me on this ? Michael |
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Windows stop opening - Resource leak or virus?
Mick
How much RAM memory? Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak? What is your CPU processor speed? Do you leave your computer on 24/7? Open Disk Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it is more informative. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MickLang wrote: Intermittently I'm experiencing problems where windows either stop opening or won't display fully, pull down menus and context menu's fail to display etc etc. It seems like the OS has run out of gui resources. This is not specific to any program, for example, alt-tab stops functioning normally, the window displaying the icons does not appear and selecting alt-tab simply switches from one program to the next (without waiting for the keyup from the alt-tab). After closing a window or program, things function normally again, however, after a while (20min-hour) the problem occurs again. Gradually I end up having to reboot as I am forced to close more and more programs until I'm only able to have a few open and it becomes unworkable. I've experienced this problem on Windows XP SP2, Vista both on my laptop and now on a desktop PC running Windows XP SP2 at work. I'm worried that this may be a virus not being detected by either Windows Defender or my work's virus detection solution. Can anyone help me on this ? Michael |
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Windows stop opening - Resource leak or virus?
MickLang wrote:
Intermittently I'm experiencing problems where windows either stop opening or won't display fully, pull down menus and context menu's fail to display etc etc. It seems like the OS has run out of gui resources. This is not specific to any program, for example, alt-tab stops functioning normally, the window displaying the icons does not appear and selecting alt-tab simply switches from one program to the next (without waiting for the keyup from the alt-tab). After closing a window or program, things function normally again, however, after a while (20min-hour) the problem occurs again. Gradually I end up having to reboot as I am forced to close more and more programs until I'm only able to have a few open and it becomes unworkable. I've experienced this problem on Windows XP SP2, Vista both on my laptop and now on a desktop PC running Windows XP SP2 at work. I'm worried that this may be a virus not being detected by either Windows Defender or my work's virus detection solution. Can anyone help me on this ? I'm seeing something similar after having worked for a long time - having opened and closed a lot of windows, having saved files in newly created subfolders in the 'Open ...' dialog-window, et cetera. In my case there is a qualifying requirement. In my case i only see this when i've done most work under a virtual drive-letter created from a folder with the 'Subst' command to shorten the paths. So it seems like a leak of some kind when using virtual mapped driveletters like that. (I don't map networkdrives so don't know if that is effected.) Are you perhaps doing something similar? -- Nah-ah. I'm staying out of this. ... Now, here's my opinion. Please followup in the newsgroup. E-mail address is invalid due to spam-control. |
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Windows stop opening - Resource leak or virus?
I believe the problem may be xp is running out of windows out of
windows handles. I believe one or more applications I'm running are leaking handles. I've run Process Explorer and determined that IE7 looks like its a big culprit chewing up between 10,000-20,000 handles per instance. Closing (with the option of reopening all tabs) and restarting IE, results in it having just over 1000 handles. |
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Windows stop opening - Resource leak or virus?
Mick
How much RAM memory? Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak? What is your CPU processor speed? Do you leave your computer on 24/7? Open Disk Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it is more informative. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MickLang wrote: I believe the problem may be xp is running out of windows out of windows handles. I believe one or more applications I'm running are leaking handles. I've run Process Explorer and determined that IE7 looks like its a big culprit chewing up between 10,000-20,000 handles per instance. Closing (with the option of reopening all tabs) and restarting IE, results in it having just over 1000 handles. |
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Windows stop opening - Resource leak or virus?
.... et al. wrote:
MickLang wrote: Intermittently I'm experiencing problems where windows either stop opening or won't display fully, pull down menus and context menu's fail to display etc etc. It seems like the OS has run out of gui resources. This is not specific to any program, for example, alt-tab stops functioning normally, the window displaying the icons does not appear and selecting alt-tab simply switches from one program to the next (without waiting for the keyup from the alt-tab). After closing a window or program, things function normally again, however, after a while (20min-hour) the problem occurs again. Gradually I end up having to reboot as I am forced to close more and more programs until I'm only able to have a few open and it becomes unworkable. I've experienced this problem on Windows XP SP2, Vista both on my laptop and now on a desktop PC running Windows XP SP2 at work. I'm worried that this may be a virus not being detected by either Windows Defender or my work's virus detection solution. Can anyone help me on this ? I'm seeing something similar after having worked for a long time - having opened and closed a lot of windows, having saved files in newly created subfolders in the 'Open ...' dialog-window, et cetera. In my case there is a qualifying requirement. In my case i only see this when i've done most work under a virtual drive-letter created from a folder with the 'Subst' command to shorten the paths. So it seems like a leak of some kind when using virtual mapped driveletters like that. I've now had this graphic corruption happen one (1) time without me having 'Subst' a folder to a driveletter since a previous cold boot, so i was wrong. It really isn't a prerequisite for me. It possibly makes it happen sooner/quicker, but it isn't an absolute requirement. -- Nah-ah. I'm staying out of this. ... Now, here's my opinion. Please followup in the newsgroup. E-mail address is invalid due to spam-control. |
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