I have XP and i just reinstalled it so I don't have SP2 other than that 3.4ghz 1024 ram 120gb master 250gb slave. So anyway enough about that when I open programs they suddenly freeze have uninstalled them and they still freeze. It is not the same program sometimes and they are random programs ones that don't have anything to do with a lot of memory usage and so on. When I try to close them I can't do it the usual way, so I have to get into the task manager and try to End Process, but to no avail that doesn't work either the only way to get rid of it is to shut down the computer can someone please help before I have to reinstall XP again. Thanks for your help.

How did you reinstall? Clean? Repair? Were these programs already installed? Why did you reinstall? What were your previous problems?

You should install SP1 if not SP2 immeadiatly after a reinstall before you do anything else. This in itself may solve your issues.

Creating a slipstreamed XP SP2 CD is quite easy & a good way to reinstall. Details here (step 7):

http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

Also: look in your Event viewer: rt. click My Computer then click Manage then Event Viewer.
Or: Administrative Tools/Event Viewer or Start/Run/ eventvwr
Open the system as well as the application tabs & look for X errors. Click error line for details.
Post back the source & event id especially of errors that seem to coincide with this issue.