Pages load extremely slow in XP

[Guest]

Lately my web pages load very very slow in IE with win XP. I have all the
updates from microsoft and about 1-2 months ago this was not a problem. But
now any website I try to open using the address bar will take at least 2
minutes to fully load and thats lucky, and I am using cable so its not an
issue with a slow modem. I am also getting errors reported by event viewer
saying that the server did not register with DCOM within the required time
(error event 10010). I tried anything I could think of and eventually just
gave up and re formatted the computer but now the problem is back. Any help
or advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[bob]

Possibly a spyware, malware, or virus running in the background? I'd run
spybot, adaware, and probably microsoft beta-virus scan.

I'd also try emptying out your Temporary Internet Files.

bob

 

[Guest]

I ran a virus scan using norton antivirus 2005 and it picked up nothing. I
ran trend micro housecall as well to be safe and nothing. I also ran spybot
S&D and it only picked up a few tracking cookies, ad-aware didnt get anything
2 days ago and I just deleted all my temp internet files and cookies and
while some pages load like a half second faster it is still extremely slow to
open a webpage and download speeds are going at about 9kbs when they should
be going at about 300+kbs. I'm getting really frustrated here and I dont
want to reformat again, so please any other suggestions?