I routinely have several windows and programs open thought out the day and what I have discovered is that after a while I have to many windows open and I can?t open anymore. What happens after I reach this state is that the right click context won?t open, clicking ctrl alt del does nothing and trying to open any program or window like IE or notepad does nothing. To fix the problem I have to close a window or two. Sometimes I might have as few a 6 window/programs open at the time when this happens. These are the programs I usually have open throughout the day Outlook, FrontPage, several Internet Explorer windows and notepad. Sometimes I will open PhotoShop and when I am having the issue the menu windows in PhotoShop won?t load.
I am running XP SP2 with 1 GB of ram. The computer never slows down, the windows just stop opening. What can I do to fix the problem?