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After turning on my PC (Win XP Home Edition) everything is fine until I
connect to the internet, when there is a gap of 5-8 minutes before the PC
shows any windows.
My normal start-up is: connect, then launch AVG update, Windows Explorer,
Magic Mail Monitor and Notepad. Nothing appears until after several minutes
when the "launched" programs' windows appear. An oddity is that Windows
Explorer window has what looks like a watermark in the lower right hand
corner (a square, tilted at about 15deg, containing a ball). If I close WE
and relaunch, the watermark does not appear.
AVG, Ad-Aware & Spybot S&D report "all OK".
I have tried launching Windows Task Manager first and watching "Processes"
before launching Windows Explorer, Magic Mail Monitor and Notepad and there
appears to be no activity after the last launch and the first window
appearing.
I have SP2, Athlon 2Ghz & 1Gb memory.
What could be the problem?
connect to the internet, when there is a gap of 5-8 minutes before the PC
shows any windows.
My normal start-up is: connect, then launch AVG update, Windows Explorer,
Magic Mail Monitor and Notepad. Nothing appears until after several minutes
when the "launched" programs' windows appear. An oddity is that Windows
Explorer window has what looks like a watermark in the lower right hand
corner (a square, tilted at about 15deg, containing a ball). If I close WE
and relaunch, the watermark does not appear.
AVG, Ad-Aware & Spybot S&D report "all OK".
I have tried launching Windows Task Manager first and watching "Processes"
before launching Windows Explorer, Magic Mail Monitor and Notepad and there
appears to be no activity after the last launch and the first window
appearing.
I have SP2, Athlon 2Ghz & 1Gb memory.
What could be the problem?