Lag on Windows startup.

[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

>-----Original Message-----
>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.
>
>.
>