Some programs will not start properly on first try.

I am not sure when or why it started, I am leaning towards one of the updates. After that point, some installed programs - Atari's release of Unreal Tournament 2004 editor's edition and some games through Valve's Steam application for example - began to

refuse to start properly on the first attempt. But on the second, it will.

Here is a break-down of what happens.

1. I click to start a program.

2. The process shows up but the program does not.

3. I click a second time.

4. The progam's process starts a second time and the program starts fine.

The strange things.

1. Quiting the first process has no effect on the result second attempt.

2. Does not occur with Microsoft made programs that I have used. (

3. With Steam, the first-start problem ocurs less often when started from the Steam window than the shortcuts (always fails the first time via the shortcuts)

4. Steam itself does not have this issue.

5. Unreal Tournament 2004 runs better (errors are rare) on Windows 7 than it does on Vista.

I have Windows 7 Home Pre - 64bit

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