MATLAB takes forever to open

When I click on MATLAB to open it on my desktop it doesn't open. The icon momentarily pops up and disappears in the task bar and then 10-15 minutes later I have 55 MATLAB windows open that arent working and I cant close them. Please help, this is so annoying and a huge waste of time.

[jahanzaib ahmad]

install again ..

[Walter Roberson]

Check to see if you have a startup.m that might be causing additional figures to open. Also, if you happened to have your own function with the same name as one of the standard MATLAB functions such as axes() then MATLAB could get confused.