Hello, just recently, about a week ago or so, whenever i startup my computer, it all looks ok, zonealarm loads fine, free ram xp loads fine. then, if i try to launch any program (browser, email, even a ctrl+alt+del) nothing happens. I try again, still nothing. five minutes later. everything starts up, windows appear and its all good. This is very irritating, any idea what would cause that? I searched google, and one website had this same question, but you had to pay to subscribe to get the fix. ugh. I've ran ad-aware and spybot, nothing, antivirus, nothing. very odd, odd indeed. Can anyone help? :/