Problem if broadband connected first.

[Mick Fountain]

If I connect the broadband before trying to load a browser or any other process the time to load the browser etc. is up to 8 minutes.
If I load the the other programs first they all work OK.
I am using a Speedtouch modem connected by USB and Windows XP.
During the 8 minutes to load even freecell there is very little disk activity and it seems as if the system has frozen but eventually the program is loaded and then all is OK.

To avoid the symptom, I have put the programs I normally use after connecting such as browser and email, in the startup folder but this is just avoiding the symtom and not finding the cause.

[Ikyuao]

If I connect the broadband before trying to load a browser or any other process the time to load the browser etc. is up to 8 minutes.
If I load the the other programs first they all work OK.
I am using a Speedtouch modem connected by USB and Windows XP.
During the 8 minutes to load even freecell there is very little disk activity and it seems as if the system has frozen but eventually the program is loaded and then all is OK.

To avoid the symptom, I have put the programs I normally use after connecting such as browser and email, in the startup folder but this is just avoiding the symtom and not finding the cause.

Are you using USB 2.0? any of your browser programs are set as direct to internet? I don't use USB for my internet access so I use fast ethernet for my SB5100 cable modem so it works flawless so I really don't use USB for my internet access.

[trogers]

Your comp may be heavily infested with spyware/malware and BHO entries.

Download and scan with SpyBot and Lavasoft Ad-Aware in Windows 'Safe Mode'.

[Mick Fountain]

Spybot Ad-aware and AVG all give a clean response with no threats.

I am dont think the USB ports are 2.0 but the speed of the modem is not the problem. When the browser is working the response is very good.

It is only a problem loading the programs for the first time after the broadband modem is working.

[trogers]

Try the freeware version of this:

http://www.hijackfree.com/en/hijackfree/

[Mick Fountain]

hijackfree only found some low risks, mainly cookies and after removal the problem still exists.

[trogers]

What kind of CPU processor speed and RAM capacity are you using?

What kind of firewall and antivirus are you using?

[Mick Fountain]

Thank you trogers. My previous reply seems to be wrong.
Having removed the Firefox and turnpike from the startup folder, so I could check how long they took to load if done after broadband was loaded, they loaded quickly. Problem seems to be solved.
The processor is a P4 and the ram has been updated from 256 to 768.
Some of the things hijackfree found were registry entries from a registry cleaner that I tried as a posible way to solve this problem.

[Mick Fountain]

I was wrong to say problem solved.
It seems to be an intermitant problem so sometimes it is OK and other times the delay occurs.
calling up task manager before I load broadband and then the other systems shows system idle time is using 99% of cpu during the eight minutes I am waiting for turnpike or firefox to load.

[trogers]

I was wrong to say problem solved.
It seems to be an intermitant problem so sometimes it is OK and other times the delay occurs.
calling up task manager before I load broadband and then the other systems shows system idle time is using 99% of cpu during the eight minutes I am waiting for turnpike or firefox to load.

Call up the Process Manager and see how much RAM is occupied - Commit Charge.

Some Windows tweak software may be able to help solve your problem by reducing number of programs during the startup and unloading dll when they are no longer in used. Example of such software - Tuneup Utilities and TweakNow

[cableguy2k7]

do you keep your harddrive defragged you should defrag every 2 or 3 days

[YeOldeStonecat]

2-3 days? Normal computer use doesn't warrant a defrag but say every 2-3 months. Unless you're installing/uninstall lots of large programs, and copying/deleting HUGE amounts of files.

Mick..does your PC have the latest chipset drivers for your motherboard? Windows updates...service pack 2? (which improved USB2 support)

Software firewall involved?

[Mick Fountain]

Thanks for advice.
I removed wscntfy.exe and MsPMSv.exe.
These were listed by taskmanager and after using Google which pointed me to pages that indicated they were not needed in the way I use my machine, I stopped them loading and this morning the boot up and loading of broadban first followed by firefox and then turnpike all loaded quickly.

The defrag done a week ago did not achieve anything but as said earlier there is very little disk activity during the long delay so it was unlikely to be that.
Defrag was probably important when FAT was the thing on small disks. even fairly small files could be made up of many clusters spread around the disk but as disks got bigger and therefore clusters got bigger many files fitted into one cluster and could not be fragmented. I do not know about NTFS but is defrag still important?

Premature report of loading quickly.

Problems with intermitant faults. You never know if it is cured or just worked this time.
Without access to the source of the software that has the error in it I can only try to avoid the symptoms by trial an error.

The machine has service pack 2 but I do not know about the drivers as the machine was given to me because it had a dead power supply.