A problem with Internet Explorer

Without warning, Internet Explorer suddenly started to delay between 10 and 20 seconds to open, anytime I call for it. Each time a link calls a new window, this one delays the same.

Yes, I confess guilty to have installed many freeware programs, but even so, the delay started not after installing any particular program. From a moment to another, the strange behavior started.

I have just updated Norton Antivirus. It doesn’t report me any virus. The Task Manager shows many processes, but I don’t dare to end any task, fearing to mess things down.

This strange behavior have ocurred before in the previous encarnation of Windows 2000. And, like an african-bees swarm, it departed as silently as arrived. I never knew what was happened.

Obviously, the questions are…

  1. How do I repair it (without reinstalling W2K, of course)?
  2. Where is the best place to search the cause?
  3. Can you help me??

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spybot and/or ad-aware
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