Games windows minimized using FX 5200

I have bought a MSI Geforce FX 5200 card (128 MB) less than a year ago. I noticed when I want to play games like Need for Speed underground, the game starts and is immediately minimized. There is no way I am able to maximize the game window.
Have done the following things:
a) Installed latest driver video driver from MSI
b) updated all operationg system patches ( Windows xp home edition )
c) Installed latest direct - x ( version 9.0b)
d) Refresh rate set to 60.
Some odd symptoms when running direct-x dxdiag test on direct-3d:
a) Noticed I am not able to test direct3d. The error message is: test interrupted by user ( I'm confident I didn't manually update the test).
I also noticed that some USB items are sharing the same IRQ as my FX 5200. Could this be the cause? Seems rather odd because some games fine if I set the game resolution to be the same as my desktop resolution.
Some advice and pointers appreciated.
Thanks!

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2. how do i add the given below row and it's data to my top my table in pdf report from c# windows forms using itextsharp?
3.how to make my column headers in bold?<<
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