Re: 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?
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