Activity Monitor Problem

Hi all,
Have had my macbook since christmas now and everything has been great, until about 3 days ago when activity monitor just stopped working, I open it, then it appears on the dock and disappears a second later! No window pops up, just the icon on the dock.
Anyone got any ideas what the problem might be? I don't really want to go through the rigmarole of a re-install
Ps, I haven't made any changes to the mac recently so I am stumped as to what might have caused it!?

Does the icon stay in the dock? I noticed that if you close the Activity Monitor window and then close the program, the next time you open it, the program will launch but no window will appear. Try this:
Open Activity Monitor.
Select Window in the menu bar and click Activity Monitor. This should bring a new Activity window up for you.
If the problem is that it launches and then immediately shuts down (disappears from the dock), I would run a maintenance program like Onyx and then restart.

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