Elaine,
I use PSP10 and more often than not the same thing happens when I try to close, have to go through Task Mgr.I've got no idea why.

Are you speaking of when you are going to shut down your computer?
I have had that happen if I do things too fast and don't give PSP time to "go back into it's shell" so to speak.

Close PSP and wait awhile, (take a sip of coffee and bite of your doughnut) then shut down and see if it does as usual.

Urlee

Nope Urlee - I'm talking about PSP v9. It's the program itself. I click on the red x in the corner, it sits there forever, sometimes the layer pallette will turn white - but it won't shut down. The task mgr. tells me PSP v9 is not responding, so I click "end task" and PSP shuts down. Just started doing this - weird - it's responding while I use it, but can't shut it down!
Elaine