program termination

[Guest LeoD]

When a program or process is terminated, stopped or ended, it does not fully

stop and is seen hanging around in the Windows Task Manager _ Precesses

screen. It then has to be terminated by clicking on 'End process'.

This happens with all applications. Some won't restart and gives the message

'application already running', even though it is not obvious on the screen.

At the same time, on shutdown, a popup window appears advising svchost.exe -

waiting to shut down. If the 'end now' is clsicked, the program ends but the

computer takes >1 min to shut down. Are these problems related and is there a

fix?