Services & Startup problem

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Marco, go to Control Panel>AdminTools>Services>Webclient. Choose to
Disable it Temporarily.
Restart and see what happens. You may also want to check for
trojans, spyware and adware.
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ You can use these sites
to do a check.

http://safespy.net/Spyware_Hunter.htm

http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/

http://spybot-spyware.com/trojan.htm

http://www.spysweeper.com/

http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/



"Marco Paguia" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:220c501c45ba9$66060e10$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> My computer has been acting a little strange on startup
> recently. It seems that at some point, the services that
> load up on startup, stop loading. It takes about two
> minutes before they finish loading.
>
> For example, about a third of the services (in
> services.msc) open normally on startup.... then the
> services just stop loading. About two minutes later, the
> rest finish loading. This was never a problem before.
> All of my Norton products (which usually load on startup)
> take forever to load each time I startup Windows.
>
> In a possibly related problem, the "Webclient" service is
> neither stopped nor started. It's status always appears
> as "Stopping.." Could this be part of the reason?
>
> Thanks.