Vista: Opening up too many things?

[Brute]

I've noticed, since I started using Windows Vista Home premium on my computer, that sometimes it just wants to stop opening up new things. usually, what happens is I'll be browsing around on the internet for a while, and then after opening up so many tabs/windows, no more will open be able to up. Where the title for the tab would be (for exampl: "Facebook | Home"), it usually says "Connecting" I think. Once this happens, I may as well just restart my computer. Even though I've closed out the tabs/windows, I can no longer open up any more. Sometimes other things on the computer are affected as well. I can't remember exactly, because I haven't had to deal with it too much lately, but I think I have trouble viewing folders and stuff as well.

It's weird, and annoying. I usually end up restarting the computer to fix it. It's like I'm hitting some kind of limit, probably having to do with memory or something. Let me make it clear that I can close everything out, but the problem still persists. I bet if I were to keep opening up one new tab and closing it out, I would eventually have this problem after doing it so many times. I couldn't believe it one time. I probably had no more than 5 tabs open at one time and it happened to me. I just happened to be looking around on Amazon for a while, and I usually open up a new window when I look at something. Does anyone know why this is happening?

I'm worried it's gonna happen to me soon because I've been online for a while and I've had many different tabs open.
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[Scott]

What browser are you using? Try another one and see if the problem persists. I'm not sure about Vista but I find sometimes when I close something (close the window), the process isn't actually ended and it still consumes the memory even though it appears to be closed. I just kill the process, which you can just do by going to the task manager, selecting it and then ending it.
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[Jacky]

[ClickFanatic]

This could be a GDI problem. GDI is an interface for graphical objects in Windows. All applications with a graphical user interface consume GDI objects. There is a limit on the amount of GDI objects that can be used.
In XP and Vista, this is 10,000.

You can open the task manager and see how many GDI objects each process is using (you might have to enable the column in the options).

If all GDI objects are consumed, no new graphical elements can be placed on the screen. You will have to clean up some of them first. That is, by closing applications. This can be a problem though, because most applications show a dialog of some kind before closing, which require additional GDI objects. Your only option in such a situation is to kill the process.
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[Brute]

I've looked around in the task managed before when this happened to me but I couldn't find anything that seemed to help. I know I've ended the task, and I think I might have tried ending the process. I'm not totally sure about that though. Now that I've opened up the GDI Objects column, I'll take a look at that when this happens to me again. Maybe I'll try opening a bunch of stuff and testing it out.
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[Mr.Fraud]

can you tell us what browser are you using and if you have already tried browsing the internet on a different browser other than the one you are currently using.

also, are those opened tabs opening only a blank webpage or is it directing you to some odd or random websites? If those are blank webpages, could be that there is a setting in your browser that is misconfigured to open up mutiple tabs all at once.

if you are redirected to several different websites, could be same as posted above, opening up multiple bookmarked tabs. or, possibility is that, there is some malware running behind the scenes whenever you are accessing your browser.

have you also tried checking for malwares in your system. don't trust only one anti-virus/anti-malware system because in several cases one software is not enough for checking your system. there are times that your security softwares do not recognize such malware and not recorded within its database. so, a second opinion would be much advisable.

if you like you can try downloading prevx 3.0 from prevx.com to check for malwares. this software is a shareware which means that you need to purchase its licensed version in able to automatically clean malwares "undetected" by other free or pretty much expensive security softwares (i am currently using free version of this softwre for means of checking the system only).

or you can just use the free service of unlimited scanning of your computer for malwares. but in removing malwares you need mr. google's help to check other security software websites on what they say about such programs or filenames detected by prevx 3.0

if you are familiar with manually removing malwares/virus/worms some pointers below would be much of help:
-be careful in removing registry entries using regedit. make sure its the correct registry entry causing some problems. prevx 3.0 will post the directory where such registry entry is being saved (mostly under ../CurrentVersion/Run).

-try to always google first suspicious filename or directory folders to make sure if it is really a malware/virus or just happen to be treated as a malware/virus (not all suspicious files are malwares, just happen to act like malwares to run correctly like gameguard for preventing online gamehacking, if you are familiar with that)

-in control panel settings, show/hide hidden folders and show/hide system folders are two different settings. most malwares are hidden under system32 which if some malwares are hiding, its totally hidden unless you choose show system folders.

-before removing any files make sure executable files are not running under services. check your task manager for suspicious services. or in a much descriptive section under Administrative Tools/Services for stopping suspicious services running in your system. (cmd msconfig is also another means of checking suspicious services which runs everytime windows is starting).

and by the way....

Security Softwares are merely just a system for blocking entry/access of malwares/spywares/virus/worms... a small security hole is still a large gap for some undetected virus to run free in your system.

and be warned that manually removing such malwares causes a great risk of damaging your other softwares or the system itself if not done without care. beofre deleting files make sure your recycle bin has this means of literally recycling accidental deletion of important files.
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