A request to disable the Desktop Window Manager was made by process...

Hi there,

I have a Vista Business Laptop at work that keeps crashing IE8 or FF3.5.1

when opening a web-ordering website - IE8/FF3.5 just keeps opening and

closing...

Looking at the Event Log it has the following info:

- System

- Provider

[ Name] Desktop Window Manager

- EventID 9010

[ Qualifiers] 16384

Level 4

Task 0

Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated

[ SystemTime] 2009-07-24T15:09:55.000Z

EventRecordID 5105

Channel Application

Computer GillM_Vista.somedomain.local

Security

- EventData

Windows Internet Explorer 8

There are other event messages which have the following:

A request to disable the Desktop Window Manager was made by process

(Firefox)

or

The Desktop Window Manager was unable to start because composition was

disabled by a running application

Searched online for "A request to disable the Desktop Window Manager was

made by process" and got returned a fair number of sites but nothing with

was caused by "Internet Explorer 8" or "Firefox".

Can anyone give me any pointers to how I can fix this issue...

Many thanks in advance.

MDA