Unable to open applications windows xp

Search In. Windows XP 32bit - cannot open any more or new Applications. Share More sharing options Followers 0. Recommended Posts. Posted September 29, Task Manager reports: Physical Memory: Total: higher than some people running XP 32bit report, haven't checked if its actually "abnormal" to report this much, since many people always report 3gb or 3.

System Cache: I didn't notice the last time the problem presented. Thanks, Tyler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Posted September 29, edited. You might just need to reinstall Windows. Preppy Veteran Posted September 30, Posted September 30, I added Handles, Threads, and GDI Objects to my task manager I had added the others before , sorted by GDI, and here's a picture of the results: So thats kinda interesting, as I only have one firefox open at the moment, its only got 43 tabs running, and I had to close my other firefox earlier tabs since I wasn't able to open any other programs, they would flash up, then close, with the system error sound as usual when this happens.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. To resolve the problem of opening. But there are some drawbacks with them. An average user will not be able to find out which part of the decompression of codec is causing a problem if any occurs.

However, you can convert all your. Hope that helps. I don't have any trouble unzipping the file. The file will not run once it's unzipped. I'm assuming that's because it is a exe file. Any other ideas? Hi, The files are not. They are. Those are registry files. OK, tried that. Then when I tried to run it I got the message that this is not a valid Win32 file. Can you please post the exact word for word error message you get? Posted 07 February - AM.

I believe it's just executable ones, but it is only the main startup files that get the error message. Example: 1.

Control Panel - Almost all control panel icons result in the above error message. The one exception is the Folder Options Icon which I can open and have of course used several times to reset everything to default.

Examples of exceptions - programs that do run: 1. Covered by US Patent. Come for the solution, stay for everything else. Welcome to our community! I am unable to open any programs and when I do like say I open mozilla then a command box pops up for 2 sec and closes and this is the case with every program on my PC. I am running microsoft xp professional.

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