MS Access, XP, Crashing and opening loads of spurious windows
 

After a day of use, two machines on a network of 7 crashed when shutting down, cant be 100% sure but we think it was when closing an Access DB.

One machine hosts the file, others open it over the network.

When the machine is shut down, loads of spurious windows appear, NetDDE is mentioned, a DVD program, and other groups of windows that I never seen or heard of before appear in the task bar. The look like services though.

The machine continues to run.

Last week a client machine did it, today, both the host and the same client did it.

It is fairly unlikely to be a virus (although not ruled out) These machines are not on the net nor do they have access to it.

This is bizarre, anyone ever seen anything similar? Any pointers?

I suspect a memory leak or bug that causes it to flip out but having seen the same sort of windows appear twice I'm not so sure.

Help.

Rich