IE Taking Up a Lot of CPU Time on Startup

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Si

When I startup my PC and my desktop is fully loaded, I notice that my CPU
meter is being fully utilisied for about a minute. I checked by calling up
the task manager and saw that it was IE that was the culprit. Does anyone
know what it is actually doing and if I can stop it? It never used to do
this and now I have to wait until it stops before I can do anything.

Cheers.

Si

Windows XP Pro SP2
Pentium 4 3.0MHz 800FSB (Prescott)
Gigabyte 8KNXP (Rev 2) Motherboard
2 GB Corsair TwinX PC3200 Ram (Dual Channel)
XFX GeForce 6800 GT 256MB DDR3
 
Si said:
When I startup my PC and my desktop is fully loaded, I notice that my
CPU meter is being fully utilisied for about a minute. I checked by
calling up the task manager and saw that it was IE that was the
culprit. Does anyone know what it is actually doing and if I can stop
it? It never used to do this and now I have to wait until it stops
before I can do anything.

Cheers.

Si

Windows XP Pro SP2
Pentium 4 3.0MHz 800FSB (Prescott)
Gigabyte 8KNXP (Rev 2) Motherboard
2 GB Corsair TwinX PC3200 Ram (Dual Channel)
XFX GeForce 6800 GT 256MB DDR3

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I checked for malware, spyware and virus earlier on and there's nothing
dodgy on my system.

Cheers.

Si
 
This may be caused by spyware/malware that's gotten installed on
your system. Use Ad-Aware, Windows Defender and/or Spybot Search & Destroy
to remove it.

Windows Defender
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
Ad-Aware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Spybot: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Good sites on how to install and use Spybot -
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/tutorial/index.html
http://tomcoyote.com/SPYBOT/index1.php

Also download a winsock repair tool, to have just in case cleaning up
anything found breaks it -

Winsock repair tools:
LSPFix- all versions of Windows http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.zip
Winsock2 Fix- Win98, ME
http://www.bu.edu/pcsc/internetaccess/winsock2fix.html
LavaSoft- all versions of Windows-
http://digital-solutions.co.uk/lavasoft/whndnfix.zip

More information here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/tshoot.html
http://spywarewarrior.com/sww-help.htm

If no joy, in IE go to Tools...Internet Options...Advanced tab, Browsing
section, uncheck "Enable third-party browser extensions", click Apply, click
Okay, reboot. If that solves your problem, then more troubleshooting is
needed to find out exactly which program, or Browser Helper Object (BHO) is
causing this problem. You don't want to leave it at that, as some BHOs are
useful or necessary - like Adobe Acrobat for reading .pdf files or an
essential component of Norton AV. Get BHODemon -
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm - read all about BHOs.
Disable all items, and then gradually replace one or two at a time to narrow
down the culprit.

Or if you have IE 6 SP-2 you can do this within the browser:
How to manage Internet Explorer add-ons in Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;883256

If all the above fails, then the problem could be something new that the
spyware cleaners above don't have in their databases yet. In that case....
HijackThis direct download:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip
Tutorial on how to use HijackThis:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html
Then post it's output log to the forum here for analysis and feedback by the
parasite experts:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/
http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30
Or one of the other HijackThis Logs forums listed here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/forums.html

Or try this program to get some of the most nasty malware:
CWShredder direct download:
http://aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip

An alternate resource for all of this and more:
http://www.aumha.org/secure.htm
 
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