Certain Programmes just dissapear

revolutionrock · 1 Jun 2008 at 00:51

Certain Programmes just dissapear, Like for Example Msn will close as soon as I sign in. Some times it does it , some times it runs like a dream. Same with Photoshop at times, any ideas? :confused:

revolutionrock · 1 Jun 2008 at 00:56

And Just now Windows media has just gone, right in the middle of a song

revolutionrock · 1 Jun 2008 at 20:45

Right , this is annoying

Now it won't start up WinAmp? As soon as i start it it says its crashed and asks to send error report etc

revolutionrock · 2 Jun 2008 at 20:09

Anyone? Please help me

rudeboymcc · 2 Jun 2008 at 21:14

you using vista?
i'm having similar troubles sometimes firefox and outlook won't start. the process is there but i can't end it and there's no windows. restart and everything's fixed.

maybe just another vista bug?

AWPC · 2 Jun 2008 at 21:47

Try stopping and restarting the following Vista Licencing services.

SL UI Notification Service

Software Licensing

As well as any dependencies (which should be restarted automatically).

The only thing you can blame MS for on this one is if you have Readyboost disabled this seems to happen (a lot of 3rd party Vista tweak guides say to disable various services which I followed but it totally messed Vista up) the other common fault is poor 3rd party drivers overwrite Vista system files and can cause this. Nvidia video drivers & Nero drivers are usually the main culprits. Reason I know is that I had this happen to me a lot so had a deeper look at it as not easy to find the exact cause.

Usual symptoms are as you describe and or unable to launch the control panel or various system/app folders are empty.

Other than restarting the services a more permanent fix maybe to just reinstall Vista as neither Nvidia or Nero acknowledge this as their problem even though it happens after you install some of their software!

revolutionrock · 5 Jun 2008 at 19:29

AWPC said:
Try stopping and restarting the following Vista Licencing services.

SL UI Notification Service

Software Licensing

As well as any dependencies (which should be restarted automatically).

The only thing you can blame MS for on this one is if you have Readyboost disabled this seems to happen (a lot of 3rd party Vista tweak guides say to disable various services which I followed but it totally messed Vista up) the other common fault is poor 3rd party drivers overwrite Vista system files and can cause this. Nvidia video drivers & Nero drivers are usually the main culprits. Reason I know is that I had this happen to me a lot so had a deeper look at it as not easy to find the exact cause.

Usual symptoms are as you describe and or unable to launch the control panel or various system/app folders are empty.

Other than restarting the services a more permanent fix maybe to just reinstall Vista as neither Nvidia or Nero acknowledge this as their problem even though it happens after you install some of their software!

I'm On XP