Three questions.
1. In Task Manager, don't go to Applications, but to Processes and be sure that 'Only show my own processes' is unchecked, so you see ALL processes. Then sort in CPU usage. Still 99% system idle and 1% your Task Manager?
2. Does this affect all programs (try Notepad, Wordpad, Windows Explorer and Command Prompt) or only the web-browsers?
3. If the system is waiting for a web-browser to become active that 10 minutes, how does the command line tool ping behave? Just type ping www.cnet.com (+ enter).
Kees
a have a small network with windows xp and windows 7,
The problem:
Pc boots up no problem, but if you launch your web browser (ie, Mozilla, Chrome), or network conection they wont start, finally after 10 to 15 minutes later, every aplication you double clicked at star up, will appears !!!.
at firts it was 1 computer now a have 4 with the same symptoms. the problem is only on XP Pc's and not all..
1.-I have scanned with AVG, Avira, MalwareBytes, and found nothing.
2.- if i run task manager, under aplication runing, there is nothing, under process i see ie, mozilla, chrome (programs that i doble clicked)
3.- after 10 to 15 minutes the Pc works fine, no trouble !!!
Anybody have any idea what could be causing this ??

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