Delayed response from Win XP Home after startup

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After turning on my PC (Win XP Home Edition) everything is fine until I
connect to the internet, when there is a gap of 5-8 minutes before the PC
shows any windows.
My normal start-up is: connect, then launch AVG update, Windows Explorer,
Magic Mail Monitor and Notepad. Nothing appears until after several minutes
when the "launched" programs' windows appear. An oddity is that Windows
Explorer window has what looks like a watermark in the lower right hand
corner (a square, tilted at about 15deg, containing a ball). If I close WE
and relaunch, the watermark does not appear.

AVG, Ad-Aware & Spybot S&D report "all OK".

I have tried launching Windows Task Manager first and watching "Processes"
before launching Windows Explorer, Magic Mail Monitor and Notepad and there
appears to be no activity after the last launch and the first window
appearing.

I have SP2, Athlon 2Ghz & 1Gb memory.

What could be the problem?

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Go into msconfig>startup and uncheck everything apart from your AV program -
then reboot and connect to the Internet. Do you still have the same
problem?

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Will Denny
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
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Yes, but only on the first boot of the day, subsequent boots are OK.
This a.m. I launched Windows Task Manager, immediately after turning PC on,
and launched Magic Mail Monitor followed by Windows Explorer. same delay
problem, but MMM appeared in "Processes" but not in "Applications" until
normal service resumed. WE had the "watermark" but on closing and
relaunching the watermark disappeared - the relaunch of WE was pretty much
instantaneous even though MMM had not yet appeared.
Tomorrow I will try Ad-Aware update first (instead of MMM).

Keith

Hi

Go into msconfig>startup and uncheck everything apart from your AV
program - then reboot and connect to the Internet. Do you still have the
same problem?

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Will Denny
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
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