Thanks Jimmy!! I found out that if I disable two programs during startup my
games run fine. The two programs are updreg and hpcmpmgr. Do you know what
these programs are and do?


"Jimmy S." wrote:

> Hi,
> "Kacman" <Kacman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BE69571B-FFBC-40CB-956C-B38E8F051508@microsoft.com...
> | After playing games for a short period of time, windows dumps to the desktop
> | and the game keeps running in the background. This happens with all games.
> | Any idea what is happening?
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> Here are some solutions (and workarounds) to deal with the problem where games minimize to the Task Bar.
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> 1. Install and/or play the game using an administrator account.
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> 2. Keyboard software has been known to cause this problem. One player
> posted that by un-installing their Trust Silverline Direct Access keyboard
> software, all their games worked again without minimizing to the Task Bar.
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> 3. Norton's AntiVirus (Internet Security) can cause the problem as well. The
> workaround is to disable the program. To do so, right click it's Tray icon.
> One person wrote: "I just went to the Norton Anti-virus options, and turned
> off the Liveupdate auto update option. It worked like a charm for me."
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> 4. One person wrote: "I finally found that if I open the command line, cd to
> the directory, then type the program name, it works!!!"
>
> 5. Yet another workaround is to click the screen after you launch the game.
>
> If the problem persists, please try these additional troubleshooting steps. :-)
>
> The most common causes for that problem can be solved with
> these few steps. If the problem persists after you've tried these,
> please post back and we'll try some more solutions. Good luck! :-)
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> A. To see if it's a software conflict: Temporarily disable Startup
> programs one at a time, starting with Firewall, Antivirus, and ad
> blockers using: http://new.jtsoft2001.com/windows/startup.php
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> You can lookup what a program does before you disable it here:
> http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
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> B. Run a virus scan at: http://housecall.antivirus.com Afterwards
> Download & Run Spybot from: http://security.kolla.de to find any
> Trojans, Adware, or Spyware which could clog up your system.
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> C. Click My Computer / Rightclick the Drive & Choose Properties
> / Run the "Disk Cleanup..." / Next Click the "Tools" Tab and run
> the "Error-Checking" and "Defragmentation" utilities.
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> D. Go to the Windows Update site for everything under Critical and
> Recommended: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com Some games
> require a patch: http://www.avault.com/pcrl/patches_list.asp?letter=a
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> E. Update DirectX and your Chipset, Sound, &Video Drivers:
> For all Video / DirectX / Game and Hardware Issues, I have a
> Checklist of Solutions at: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits/Video.html
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> --
> Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
> Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
>
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