Something taking a long time to load after boot!!!

Okay! Put the first computer on the router too and tell me if there is any change.

I'm heading out for awhile now. I got a meeting to go to. Be back in 3 to 4 hours (I think).

 

I had a typo in my instructions which had you write to the same file name in each step. Hopefully you realized that and ran the ipconfig /all into a new file each time. Is that a true assumption?

When you were attempting to get the ipcfg1.txt file was the system in the 2 minute wait mode to get an Internet connection? Maybe I should have written it this way:

Next time you boot you PC, as soon as you can run Internet Explorer and make sure you are in the 2 minute wait mode. And quickly open a command prompt window by click Start, Run, and enter cmd and click okay.

In the cmd window type ipconfig /all > c:\ipcfg1.txt followed by the enter key.

Could you get me an ipconfig /all output from the PC that works. Also a couple of questions:
1) when you got these outputs, it looks like you were connected to the router still. Right?
2) does the PC that works have all the same programs loading at startup that the problem PC does?

Try using Startup CPL to disable the loading of the below and see if there is still a problem.
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [tgcmd] "C:\Program Files\Support.com\bin\tgcmd.exe" /server
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [iTunesHelper] C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [eDonkey2000] C:\Program Files\eDonkey2000\eDonkey2000.exe -t
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [diagent] "C:\Program Files\Creative\SBLive\Diagnostics\diagent.exe" startup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ATIPTA] C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel\atiptaxx.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AdaptecDirectCD] "C:\Program Files\Roxio\Easy CD Creator 5\DirectCD\DirectCD.exe"
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Yahoo! Pager] C:\PROGRA~1\Yahoo!\MESSEN~1\ypager.exe -quiet
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Steam] "c:\program files\valve\steam\steam.exe" -silent
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [MSMSGS] "C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe" /background
O4 - Global Startup: Acrobat Assistant.lnk = C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Distillr\acrotray.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Adobe Gamma Loader.exe.lnk = C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Calibration\Adobe Gamma Loader.exe

 

I want you to try a few things (obviously we need to reboot each time):

1) reboot your PC and do absolutely nothing for say 10 minutes (go get a snack). Then come back and run Internet Explorer. Is it still slow to connect?

2) what if you temporarily change the startup page to something else like www.majorgeeks.com. Is it still slow to connect?

3) Instead of running Internet Explorer I want you to click Start, Explore to bring up Windows Explorer. In the address bar enter your start page, http://www.my.yahoo.com/ , and hit return
Is this method slow too?

 

Good info! Just do steps 1 and 3.

 

I gotta sleep soon!!!

 

Okay so it appears like your PC is not done configuring something the Internet Explorer requires (but Windows Explorer does not) for another 2 minutes or so after you think all active is done.

Reboot your PC and at the point where you typically try to start IE, don't. Do the following instead, hit CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up Task Manager and select Processes see if you can see a process using CPU time during those first 2 minutes and then the CPU useage drops.

 

Okay! In reality that makes more sense to me. Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer share much of the same code so it would make sense that the problem would occur in both.

However since it does not happen if you wait long enough after rebooting it still appears to be that your system still has something else going on and that causes the delay. What it is I'm not sure of yet. But since your IP addresses are already setup okay right after boot (we checked with ipconfig), it appears to not be lack of DHCP assignment. And if you wait 10 minutes (just one example) there is no delay. This rules out a problem the first time IE is run after reboot.

Try rebooting and immediately opening that command prompt window and enter the following and tell if you get replies or time outs:
ping 192.168.0.1
and then ping yourself
ping 192.168.0.100

 

Okay! It's not a physical problem. Your hardware is up and ready.

Please give the below 15 day trial of Giatn Antispyware a run.

http://www.giantcompany.com/download.aspx?prodID=70
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Let me know if it finds anything.

 

Each spyware scanning program has the ability to find/fix things that others do not. It's a matter of what they have designed into their program. I have seen this particular one and also SpySweeper find a few things that did not show up in a HijackThis log. So I'm hoping that maybe they will pickup on something. Otherwise, I would have to say that you PC just isn't ready to connect for two minutes.

By the way, could you time how long it takes from the time your turn on the power to the time where IE finally loads the start page?

Also, please post a StartupList log from HJT. To do that, run HJT, click Config, Misc Tools, and now you will see the "Generate StartupList log" button. First select the check box to List also minor sections (full). Then click the Generate StartupList log. Save the log to a .txt file and post here as an attachment. This finds all kinds of additional items that run at boot time but will not show later in a running process list because they have already terminated.

 

What about the Giant Antispyware scan and the timing info?

I see Giant is installed, but did it find anything? If so, what? And did it fix it?

 

I did not see anything obvious in the StartupList log!