Some programs suddenly won't run / load (Windows 8)

hauruapai

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Hi,

I have just returned home after being away 3 weeks and when I left my pc was working fine. However, today when I went to load a program it loaded then closed very fast. I searched the forums here and see others have had the same thing so I tried the following as suggested in other posts and after each one I then tested the program without any good result so I moved onto the next one in the list.

1 a system rocevery - which was before I went away
2 a repair of the program
3 a re-install of the program
4 a re-start
5 checked the processes - it is not running
6 added an exception to my anti virus
7 instead of trying to run the program from the quickbar, I found the exe and tried running it from there
8 checked in the event viewer, cleared the logs, restarted, tried to run program, nothing in event logs.
9 opened task manager then tried to run program, it does not come up, although there is a quick spike in cpu usuage
10 made sure that the folder had permissions for the ALL APPLICATIONS PACKAGES group
11 Tried the windows compatibility program

I then found that another program that I was using during this time, started doing the same thing. A re-start fixed that one.

Does anyone else have any other ideas that I could try?

Thank you for your time. :)
 

hauruapai

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Thank you for the idea - I opened Task Manager and could not find a re-start for explorer.exe as the only option I can see is stop the process, which I proceeded to do then of course all icons disappeared, so I had to do a restart of my pc and got it all back.

So how do I restart explorer?

Thank you for your time.
 

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