Long (5 minute) delay in opening programs after connecting to web

[Guest]

For the first five minutes after connecting to the web, none of the new
programs I try to open will open, but then after five minutes or so, they
all open at once.

To avoid waiting to use my programs, I now open up Outlook and IE before
connecting to the web so that I don't have to wait for them to open after
the five minute period.

Any ideas as to what could be causing the programs to stall?

 

[Pentium]

Sounds like a classic drain clog ... too much junk, so here's a classic
answer. Also sychronize you e-mail messages.

Get these free programs and run them after you reboot.

ADAWARE : http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ Removes malware,
spyware that Spybot doesn't

SPYBOT : http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html Removes
malware, spyware that Adaware doesn't

CCLEANER : http://www.ccleaner.com/ This baby removes all temp cache, and
other indexing crap on boot-up ... go into "options" and check off "at boot"
This stuff is probably clogging your system too

STARTUP INSPECTOR: http://www.windowsstartup.com/


You probably have too many startup items first of all. The inspector will
give you a consultative look at what runs in start-up and choose to delete
those startups that "snail" a boot up.

Then Defrag your computer ... You probably have file parts all over your
drive. Make sure ALL your anti-virus etc are all up-to-date...make sure you
keep those Windows Updates coming in.