System hangs up for 4 seconds when closing windows

Well, that's my problem. Whenever I close any kind of window (firefox, windows explorer, etc) there's a 3-4 seconds hang up. Let me explain: For example, I close firefox browser and then click the "start" button, but nothing happens for like 4 seconds, and then the start menu pops up. The hang up is general: following the same example, if I close a firefox window, and then I try to open any folder during the next seconds, it won't open for like 4 seconds. That's my problem I would appreciate any help.

 

thanks for answering! It happens a few months after a fresh windows install, I'm guessing it may be some of the softwares I've installed, mobo drivers, i'm not sure. 512 RAM, pagefile is on system managed, but I had it on fixed size and the problem was still there.

 

I'm sorry! I forgot to tell you about that one. There's nothing unusual when closing a window.

 

To ride along with PeteC.

How well or fast Windows ( ANY version going WAY back to Win3.1 ) behaves may well ( DOES ) depend 100% on What & how, how much or Combination(s) that is (are ) loaded at startup.
Over the years ( many ) I have learned that THE LEAST loaded at bootup creates the better running system.
Next comes making sure that things that are supposed to DO GET shutdown BEFORE windows does.

BillyBob

 

Just to add to my previous reply.

Another thing that I have learned over the years (from experience) is that Windows (a PC) in its own way is not much different than the motor vehicles that we drive every day.

OVERLOADING and/or SPEEDING can KILL

BillyBob

 

it was just a sad face. Since I haven't found a solution...

around 25, already checked all of them and are bening

yes

Yes to everything

yes to everything again

wired everything

Only 4 elements loading at bootup, all of them necessary (Ati CCC, ctfmon, antivirus and the soundcard mixer)

 

omfg guys, I just found out what was causing the delays. After my last post, I thought to myself "mmm bening elements, but that doesn't mean one of them couldn't be causing this problem ". So I terminated and unchecked from the bootup list the least important (and irrelevant) one: ctfmon.exe. And the problem was gone. It re-reloads when opening Internet explorer, so I'm currently following microsoft steps to uninstalling it:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q282599

 

I also say Good work.

I believe you have learned a valuable lesson.

BillyBob

 

thanks everybody. I have Office 2003 too, but I installed all the latest updates from Microsoft office update page, so I guess something got installed during those updates, probably the office service pack got something to do with it.