Programs Rarely Close & XP Takes long time to shut down



Hi,
My Problem is that when I close programs they dont close half of the time,
they just hang there until I restart the computer and there status is not
responding,
I can't close them in task manager either, to add onto this,
when I shut down, windows takes about 15minutes to turn off (I have enabled
autoendtasks in the registry for shutdown).
This is getting extremely irritating having to restart the computer each
time I want to close a program, ontop of that it takes 20mins to restart the
computer!
If I dont restart the computer to close the programs, the computer becomes
sluggish and most programs starts hanging.

Thank you for your help.

PS. I am running XP Pro with all the latest windows updates.

.



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