have trawled trhough here and the net but found nothing definite to really help me.
I have 2 specific problems:

1 When using mozilla I get my screen within seconds but if i use explorer it spends ages , well 30 seconds at least, saying detecting proxy settings. It never used to do this!

And secondly when XP has just booted it spends ages now telling me its checking my personal settings which again it never used to!

Are the two faults connected? Have run various spyware programs etc and anti virus is loaded.

Regards Bogart