windows XP needs restart after closing a www screen

[jxh013300]

This is a new Windows XP (home edition).

Just couple of days ago I found everytime if I closed a www window, this pc needed to be restarted again.

Now I had installed Ad-Aware (SE), but it still needs to be restarted.

This is a really annoying problem. Please anybody here give me some idea.

Thank you very much.

[dannymichel]

This is definitely not normal windows behavior. If you ask me you definitely have something malicious on there. When you say this is a new windows xp home edition are you saying that you have fresh installed/formatted? I'd hate to take the easy way out, but if it is maybe what u can do is format again and fresh install. If you have a CD burner id get a new CD and slipstream the XP CD with SP2. I normally put my antivirus software and firewall on one disk and install that right after i have fresh installed so i know there was no possibility of me getting something on there.

[jxh013300]

In fact this one is newly purchased "emachine" (after thanksgiving sale). I don't have the OS CD for this home edition one, but in my office I have windows XP proffesioanl OS cd (from Dell).

The answer I would like to know is there any site effection if I install the Dell Professional OS CD to Emachine home one.

Thanks for your time.

[ECA]

I will say this...
IT WONT WORK...
DELL has made that disk ONLY to work on THERE systems..

Jxh,
I would check that you have your Mother board drivers set correctly. under harware manager.
YOU should ALSO have an installation of windows on the Emachines HD, someplace. I would look into recovering windows.. Tap f8 at startup..

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/downloads/default.mspx

And i think you need a good anti virus program..