Lag on Windows startup.

[jeremy]

When I log into Windows, AIM and other programs load up
fine. My Intel PROset client and McAfee VirusScan's seem
to wait a minute or so before they load into Windows
(during that time, I can talk on AIM and open folders and
whatnot up, but if I try to do anything fancy, that
program ceases to finish running). Also-Internet
Explorer opens, but doesn't establish a connection.

Once McAfee loads up(as well as the other programs),
everything happens at once, and my computer runs like
normal.

During the frozen time, the CPU is running from 0-6% or
so. Nothing seems to be abnormal.

Specs...
Windows XP Pro
1.6 GHz Pentium M
528 MB DDR SDRAM

It's not an issue of the laptop being too slow. It only
started happening more recently.

Any idea how to stop this or find out what's happening?

Thanks.

 

[apollo2011]

Hi jeremy!

I had this problem too. Would you by any chance have DSL
with a Connection manager running? I got SBC Yahoo! DSL
and started to notice my machine was slowing down on
startup. I tried to cut back on programs and cut it down
to that the Connection Manager was hogging tyhe prcessor
for over a minute. I just stopped this program from
running at startup and my startup time improved
dramatically. Hope this helps