slow internet after updates

[mrgee]

could anyone shed some light on this problem please.

i did a reformat on pc the other day reinstalled everything and pc running great . now just had a load of windows updates and when i open explorer type in a web page and click go it seems to take maybe 10 - 20 seconds before page starts to load.
any ideas people please

[JPnyc]

I think we'd need more info, such as OS, version of IE, etc. and did you happen to check out which updates were being intalled, etc.

[mrgee]

im using windows xp internet explorer 7 and not sure what updates it did
if that helps

[Sterling_Aug]

Get all of the Windows Updates, then runa full anti-virsu scan with 2 or 3 different programs, then run a full anti-spyware scan with another 3 or 4 programs, then let us know how it works.

[mrgee]

ok done all the updates scanned for virus and trojans etc and clean .
when i open task manager in that 10-20 second pause it shows as my cp usage at
100% after the 20 seconds it drops back down to about 10 %

[Sterling_Aug]

You either still have an infection of some kind, you have phantom devices that are slowing the system down, or you need to d a repair install of Windows.

Phantom devices: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/241257/en-us