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(Solved) - Certain programs are not opening, not functioning properly

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xXAntibodyXx
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Well I turned on my computer today, and at first, everything seemed normal. I opened Firefox and browsed the internet just fine. I then tried to open Open Office, but for some reason, while the icon showed up in my taskbar, the program wouldn't open. After trying it again several more times, I decided to restart the computer. Problem is, when I went to Start--> Restart, it didn't actually restart. I tried just shutting it down all together, but that didn't work either. So I just did a hard reboot. After it turned back on, I tried to open Open Office again, and this time it opened, however once I opened a file, it would say it was not responding and I'd have to close it again. If I did successfully open a file, and tried to open another, the entire program wouldn't respond and I'd have to close it. So I uninstalled it, hoping reinstalling it would help. I them went to open Internet Explorer, which I use to download files. But, Internet Explorer wouldn't open, just like Open Office wouldn't open. I then decided to just download it from Firefox, but when the download window opened, it, to, didn't respond, causing me to close that as well.

Not every program is like this, though, as I can open programs such as Paint, Notepad and my media player. I decided to do a scan with NOD32, but it was clean. I also checked the processes running, and everything checked out. Please help, I can't get any work done on my computer until this problem is solved!

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LH
LH
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xXAntibodyXx hi. Go back to a Restore point from a few days ago.

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xXAntibodyXx
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Thanks a lot, that solved it.

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LH
LH
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So happy for you :)

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