winXP slow to log on, outlook express slow to start.

I have a fresh install of XP on my XP2100.

Takes about 10 seconds to get to the login screen from pressing the power
button. But then when you logg on it takes a good couple of minutes before
you can use the system. The desktop will come up striaght away but if you
hit CTRL ALT DEL and under users it will show nothing for a couple of
minutes. In that time you can't access the taskbar or start menu.

I am thinking it has something to do with Ihug Ultra card setting itself up.
I am using the new XP drivers. I thought it might have something to do with
the satcards IP so I set that to 10.10.10.1 but that didn't make a
difference.

Any ideas?


Secondly, I have setup Mailwasher which seems to be working well but since
setting it up Outllook Express takes ages to startup. Internet explorer is
nice and snappy as it should be and everything else appears to be fine.
Just OE is slow.

Any ideas?

Cheers for your thoughts.

 

Dont suppose youve installed Spybot by any chance ?

I performed a fresh install of 2k on my box a few weeks back and ran spybot
with its hosts file and my machine literally took about 3 minutes to
actually allow me to do anything after logging in.
Soon as I removed Spybots entries from the hosts file, it logged in fine
without any hesitation.

 

Make sure you don't have your CPU's cache turned off in the Bios.