Hello learned ones Time again to pick your brains. I'm running XP Home, with plenty of disc space, and 512 mem.Here are the symptoms: When I click on "My Computer," "IE," "Control Panel," "My Documents," and any number of others, the response time is generally about 11 seconds. Once I'm *in* any of those, everything's normal. No spyware, no trojans, no viruses. On safe mode, all of the above (except IE of course) respond instantly. When I uncheck "Load Startup items" on msconfig, problem still remains. When I *Unchecked* "Load System Services" everything was perfect. Any ideas as what to do next? Any and all help would be appreciated. Regards, Richard VIEW ARCHIVES @ //www.freelists.org UNSUBSCRIBE by sending email to triadtechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with unsubscribe in the Subject field. To VIEW/CHANGE your subscription status go to //www.freelists.org/webpage/triadtechtalk Contact List Owner - dbcfour@xxxxxxx