IE6 Starts slow

[Guest]

Having a problem with IE 6 on Windows XP professional
-Internet Explorer takes 15 - 30 seconds to start
-If I right-click my computer and select properties, it also takes 15 - 30 second
-If I select the Services console I also experience this dela

Once internet explorer starts it behaves normally. It is not related to CPU speed or internet connection speed. I have a GB of memory on this machine and a Pentium4. This is a new install of windows. I think it may have been caused by a service pack, but I am not sure. If I start IE pointed at a file on my hard drive, it starts in one to two seconds. It doesn't seem to be affected by whether another instance of IE is open or not. When I monitor the processes in the task manager, I see the iexplorer.exe process start as soon as I click on the Icon. System uses 100% of the cpu and iexplorer.exe is using none. After about 15 - 30 seconds, iexplorer.exe starts to use some cpu cycles, and everything proceeds as expected from there. I am totally at a loss with this one, and could really use some help

Thanks
-Kjel

 

[zAk]

I'm having the same symptoms when launching any application since catching
up on Windows Critical updates yesterday.

Have you recently done any WinXP updates? One or more might be causing
this.

I have cleaned up drives and TIF cache, run the chkdsk and defrag tools,
compressed the registry, etc.
Nothing helps.

Hate to start removing any patch(es) just installed unless I can find some
definite info that it's the cause.

Hope some can offer advice.

zak

Having a problem with IE 6 on Windows XP professional:
-Internet Explorer takes 15 - 30 seconds to start.
-If I right-click my computer and select properties, it also takes 15 - 30 seconds
-If I select the Services console I also experience this delay

Once internet explorer starts it behaves normally. It is not related to

CPU speed or internet connection speed. I have a GB of memory on this
machine and a Pentium4. This is a new install of windows. I think it may
have been caused by a service pack, but I am not sure. If I start IE pointed
at a file on my hard drive, it starts in one to two seconds. It doesn't seem
to be affected by whether another instance of IE is open or not. When I
monitor the processes in the task manager, I see the iexplorer.exe process
start as soon as I click on the Icon. System uses 100% of the cpu and
iexplorer.exe is using none. After about 15 - 30 seconds, iexplorer.exe
starts to use some cpu cycles, and everything proceeds as expected from
there. I am totally at a loss with this one, and could really use some help.