Hi,

I appear to have got it sorted! It seems to have been a problem with
the Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) Service. I've disabled the service
and now there is no delay opening Windows Explorer or in prepending
URL's with http:// automatically. I'm sure it's the same problem as
the other chap experienced (http://www.aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=16583)
because I noticed in his list of services that he was running HP
software that allowed him to connect to a HP printer via wireless like
me - and I'm prepared to bet that if he looks in the event viewer he'll
see that the WIA falls over on startup and every so often after that
(RPC errors in my case).

Regards...Rob

Don Varnau wrote:
> Hi,
> I think that a more thorough search for malware is in order.
>
> Start at http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=4075 Then go to
> http://www.aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm Work through the preliminary cleaning
> steps then post a HijackThis log to the forum at
> http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30
>
> Be patient. It's a busy forum.
>
> There's a similar problem being worked in this thread
> http://www.aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=16583
>
> Hope this helps,
> Don
> [MS MVP- IE]
>
>
> "Rob" <rob_tyers[at]yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1131831099.950756.90730@z14g2000cwz.googlegro ups.com...
> > Hi Don,
> > Thanks for your suggestions, but they didn't help I'm afraid. While
> > the machine is waiting once you've hit return the disk light flashes a
> > bit - I'm wondering if it could be a registry problem or something. It
> > affects all users on the machine not just myself so I'm not
> > sure....Everything looks ok and I've run one of the update resistry
> > files that should sort out issues like this one. If not the registry
> > could it be waiting for something to time out? When I open "my
> > computer" it takes a similar amount of time to display the drives
> > available - wonder if that could be influencing things somewhere along
> > the way.
> > Regards Rob.