upgrade from Win 98SE to Windows 2000

[Guest]

Recently upgraded from 98SE to 2000. This may have been a mistake but it has
been done and no turning back. It did resolve several issues that I was
having but has created others. One pc that I use has quit a lot of software
installed on it and is booting slow and when I connect to the Internet I have
problems with MSN as the home page. It loads slow and when I go to Hotmail
and enter the password it hangs. I am not sure what needs to be done. It has
IE 5.5.I have gone through the setting on IE and adjusted but did no good.
The other pc with I connect through it msn cones up quick but still the same
problem with hotmail hanging. I did email hotmail support and like I said
above tried some adjustments to IE but didn't do any good.Any suggestions
from anyone? Do I need to remove some software and reinstall? Hotmail hanging?
GeorgeLM

 

[Andrei Ungureanu]

try to install IE6 SP1

 

[Stephan Laska]

try to install IE6 SP1

download and install, don't do an update.

 

[Stephan Laska]

My standard issue "can you fix my computer" actions"

1) disk cleanup
a) delete temp internet files
b) del contents of windows/temp
c) clear history
2) run ad-aware and spybot search & destroy.
3) run a registry clean up too. RegSupreme seems to work well
4) do all windows updates.
5) defragment

www.majorgeeks.com has the recommended files