Are you using the Immunize feature of Spybot? If so, De-Immunize and try
again - the "immunisation" just dumps thousands of sites into the Restricted
Sites zone in IE and in IE8 this causes it to take a lot longer to start up.

Dan

Youka wrote on Wed, 3 Jun 2009 07:33:05 -0700:

> I don't have any 3rd party toolbars installed. In fact, I removed the
> Google
> Toolbar long ago because of the slowdown that it was causing with my IE
> browser.

> I took took your advice and ran Spybot S&D, and it too -- like all
> other tools that I've run -- comes back and says that I am, in fact,
> CLEAN.

> "kermit" wrote:

>> What about 3rd party toolbars? Do you have any installed? If so,
>> disable all of them and see if your response time improves. I
>> think, given the scans and precautions you've listed below, that
>> you're likely virus/malware free. Although.... you might try SpyBot
>> and also Hijackthis.


>> Youka wrote:
>>> Thanks for the diagnosis. I wasn't sure if this type of behavior
>>> (slow startup, then speed up) was considered "normal" for IE -- and
>>> it sounds like you're saying that it's NOT.

>>> Looks like I'm headed to one of the Hijackthis forums, since . . .

>>> I previously ran Malwarebytes, SuperAntiSpyware, a-Squared, MSRT and
>>> Windows Defender, and a Kapersky Online Scan . . . all of which came
>>> back clean. Also, I'm fully patched, and have never been never
>>> without a valid A/V subscription (currently Avira).