thomas1004
Well-Known Member
I buried this comment in my last post, thought it worthwile to move it here.
It seems that a hard reboot (Shut down, then power on) somehow disables some, not all, the apps in the task bar. By disable I mean, the app appears in task manager, allocates a few hundred k, then stops..no ui, no full launch. It happened again, and this time I did a soft Restart after the symptoms appeared and I was able to launch all apps from the task bar.
I thought originally the updates of 12/13/2011 were responsible; maybe they still are or maybe I have a unique problem with my notebook. Not sure at this point.
I have windows 7 professional 64-bit SP1.
This morning I saw there were 19 'important' updates available.
I selected to update my pc (HP Pavilion dv7)After the updates and restarting, I could not launch Outlook or other apps on my toolbar.
I could launch task manager, IE9, explorer.
When I launched Outlook for example..it appeared in task manager with memory allocated at 120k..that was it..the screen never came up..same for other apps..they would appear in task manager with 100k or so but the display never launched.
I turned off my AV (webroot) but that did not fix anything.
I used system restore prior to the updates and my apps now launch correctly.
I've turned off the automatic windows updates for now..will do manually.What happened???
Thanks
Tom
It seems that a hard reboot (Shut down, then power on) somehow disables some, not all, the apps in the task bar. By disable I mean, the app appears in task manager, allocates a few hundred k, then stops..no ui, no full launch. It happened again, and this time I did a soft Restart after the symptoms appeared and I was able to launch all apps from the task bar.
I thought originally the updates of 12/13/2011 were responsible; maybe they still are or maybe I have a unique problem with my notebook. Not sure at this point.
I have windows 7 professional 64-bit SP1.
This morning I saw there were 19 'important' updates available.
I selected to update my pc (HP Pavilion dv7)After the updates and restarting, I could not launch Outlook or other apps on my toolbar.
I could launch task manager, IE9, explorer.
When I launched Outlook for example..it appeared in task manager with memory allocated at 120k..that was it..the screen never came up..same for other apps..they would appear in task manager with 100k or so but the display never launched.
I turned off my AV (webroot) but that did not fix anything.
I used system restore prior to the updates and my apps now launch correctly.
I've turned off the automatic windows updates for now..will do manually.What happened???
Thanks
Tom
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