I am getting very irritated with my computer! From the time I boot up my computer (witch takes about 5 whole minutes to load the little icons in the bottom bar, only mcafee and call wave,) and click on internet explorer to get on the internet the window takes about 30 seconds to open. Then I connect to the internet and my home page takes a hole 20 minutes to load befor it will free up my mouse pointer to where I can freely move and go elsewhere on the internet. After that Its just fine. Why does it take so long to process this initial home page download? I do regular maintinance to delete temp files and regular defrags and have all kinds of space on my hard drive. I only use my computer for internet surfing and do not have many programs on my computer. My system says that its optimized and running fine and my antivirus and antispy shows clean. I have also disabled the automatic microsoft updates because whenever that would run in the backround it would hang up my mouse pointer till it was finished. My computer is AMD K6 3D processor 64MB RAM. Could this be a memory problem? If so why does it work fine after the initial start up? Any ideas? Hadachocolatelab

What do you have loading at start up ?? What is beside your clock? Or do a Start/Run/and type in; msconfig then go to start up tab and see what is using all your resorces What Antivirus/Firewall programs are you running? Also it wouldnt hurt to get another 64mb stick of ram " You're only as safe as your last update "

Also what is the homepage you are opening? www.??? " You're only as safe as your last update "

The home page that I am opening is yahoo. But I have also tried msn... I have always used McAfee antivirus. From the start up misconfig file here is what is running at startup..... taskbar display controls scan registry / auto run task monitor system tray load power frofile vsochecktask (mcAfee mcagent exe (mcAfee) mcupdate exe (mcAfee) mctskshld (mcAfee) load power profile kb891711 (windows system) mcshld9x (mcAfee) microsoft office startup thanks Hadachocolatelab

There are a couple of boring old standards that you could try, they sometimes help general problems: Run IE Repair (double click Microsoft IE & Tools entry in Control Panel/Add-Remove to get the option). Shut down and restart in MS-DOS mode then type scanreg /fix (hit Return). This rebuilds your registry. The above are harmless but I've more faith in this being a background program running, as stated by others. You can "temporarily" untick anything in msconfig (although it's best to keep ScanRegistry in place). Two LoadPowerProfile entries are normal. This should help: STARTUP ITEMS Ctrl-Alt-Del can sometimes be informative too. Could you list what anti-malware/virus products you are using please? Here's a freebie Trojan finder/fixer that you may wish to try: A2FREE - JUST DOWN PAGE 64M should be enough and this doesn't sound like a RAM problem - tho anything is possible. DerekW

I have to differ with you there Derek. More RAM. 64MB for a 128MB total should do nicely. It's not that expensive if you're not going for "top of the line". You can remove MS Office Startup. That's a drain on the system. The only other things are load power frofile (both entries). Next would be any screensavers etc. All these things chip away at the system. If you don't use it within ten or fifteen minutes of being on your system, get rid of it and load it manually when you need it. The reason for (or one of) the long startup load is the system is allocating things based upon what you're running. Your swap file is adjusting. More RAM will help in this department. It's a good day when you learn something

Dan I was really relating this to the 5 mins bootup, IE taking 30s to open, and the home page taking 20 mins to arrive. I never had anything of the sort with 64M of RAM. In fact, being a fairly light user in those days, I hardly noticed any change when I doubled it to 128M. Sure, up to a point, more RAM is always a good thing but it depends more on your type of usage than anything else, including the number of background tasks running. I feel sure there is some other reason for these crazy figures. DerekW