Hi all, im in need of some help, when i open up IE i get teh connect to internet box (as usual) when i enter the user/pass it connect straight away to the net, however i cnt browse till about 4 minutes after for some reason the progress bar just slowly moves,when i enter a url nothing happens either. The pc seems to be stuck as i cant open any other programs, however after 4 minutes i can browse and open other apps as usual. has anyone got any ideas why this could be happening? I have done the following: 1. ran spybot search and destroy and lavasoft Ad-aware, (it only found cookies)i restarted the pc and had the same problem. 2. made all the programs that are allowed accessed via zone alarm program control to ask me first, IIS, IE and a few other asked for access to the net when i connected, but still had to wait the four minutes. 3. Tried firefox and still the same problem, had to wait four minutes to get any page loaded. 4.scanned pc for viruses with nod32 , still same problem. cheers