I disabled AVG from the startup and from severvices but didn't make any difference, however, i have a suspition that it is not AVG but Mcafee site ADVISOR that starts from services instead of startup that is doing it, will check it outNo sweat and just try uninstalling lime wire it does STRANGE things to ones pc Did you re-install your MBoard drivers after the re-install of Windows ? ?
Do you have MS Office installed on this machine ? ?
Any Norton products ? ?Sorry I haven't been around for a while, have been away from the computer
If I'm honest I cannot REMEMBER WHETHER I did put in the CD for the motherboard, will have to try and find that
I do have MS Office on this machine
And I do not have any Norton products, I personally don't like them.
How might MS Office make a difference may I ask?Some Office apps pre-load themselves to a ready state. This can slow down the boot times...If you're on dialup and IE is set to 'never dial a connection' as mine is then Automatic Windows Update will do this to you.
It sits there looking to find a connection via IE that will never come, I set mine to disabled and update manually a week after Update Tuesday to be sure Microsoft has no issues.
I would think auto update would be the default setting and as it happened after a new install of windows... well.
The settings can be changed in 'services', you could prowl around in services anyway you never know, just be careful what you do.
Blackviper has both the defaults and the tweaks if you're unsure.