clicking on a program after booting up

[Guest]

As of late, after I boot up, then I click on a desktop program to either
check spam killer or go into another program, nothing happens.If I wait 2 or
3 minutes it suddenly begins.It just started happening this past week,
running home edition xp, sp2.Internet ex.6, outlookexpress. I tried a system
restore and that did not solve it, did a defrag and scan disk, I cannot
figure it out. It is like a long pause and then it finally kicks in.I have
plenty of memory and a new hard drive.

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Thought about a virus or possibly spyware?

 

[Guest]

I run virus scan mcafee everyday,avert also,run adaware and spybot and
spysweeper ,anything I have missed?

 

[Adam Membrey]

Have you checked your event log to see if any service is timing out?

Click on Start > Run and type "eventvwr.msc"

See if there are any warnings or cautions

 

[Guest]

checked logs, all i see errors-service dropped,error service control
manager-error application hang, I tried to print out the info and I did not
know how to get to it. At the moment It has only failed once today.