Applications are not launching - Help

From: SJS (sjs[at]yahoo[dot]com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:46:25 -0500

For the past couple of days, for some reason, certain apps appear not to be
launching when I click either on the link or on the .exe file itself. I say
'appear' because nothing pops up on screen, but yet if I look at the
processes in Windows Task Manager, I can see application(s).

For example, this evening, I tried to launch Adobe Reader 7.0 to view a PDF
document, and I downloaded and tried to install WinRAR 3.42.

At the same time, certain other apps which used to launch in a breeze now
take much longer. I have Norton Anti-Virus and Norton Personal Firewall up
and running. I did a complete scan of my machine, and nothing came up. The
only thing I did to my machine recently is that I removed a few unused apps.

 Any ideas? Thank you.

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