OK , so you get to the desktop normally, it seems ok for a short time
then it freezes or slows dramatically for 3 or 4 minutes ? yes
Here some picture of what the hanging looks like:
'*Pic1*'
(http://i337.photobucket.com/albums/n...l/DSC01311.jpg) i
hovered my mouse pointer to the firefox and moved it away. look at the
firefox icon, the icon was still highlighted even though my mouse
pointer was not there anymore.
'*Pic2*'
(http://i337.photobucket.com/albums/n...l/DSC01310.jpg)
the opacity of my sidebar is 20%. look at the mouse pointer, the
pointer was not hovering the gadgets, but they were highlighted.
At that point svchost.exe is making a lot of outbound connections and
other apps. including your antivirus/spyware are trying to update - this
might cause a slight slowdown - you can check by restarting after
disconnecting from the net. I am lost.. Do you want me to disconnect my internet and restart it?
It's more likely to be a conflict between your security apps - if you
have several with so called resident protection, they can fight with
each other over what they see as protected registry keys. I had a
similar problem, tho. not as bad. What security do you have installed ? I have Bitdefender Internet Security 2008 and I just installed spybot
last night.
You say there wasn't a problem before o'cing so something has changed
since then - It's worth looking in msconfig. to see what is now in
startup.
'*msconfig 1st page*'
(http://i337.photobucket.com/albums/n.../msconfig1.jpg)
'*msconfig 2nd page*'
(http://i337.photobucket.com/albums/n.../msconfig2.jpg)


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