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Thanks all for the suggestions. I already have software updater disabled. Went to add/remove programs and did it this way. I have a 12MB internet connection. It’s not the internet speed that bogs my system down after boot up. Avast is doing something that I haven’t yet figured out. My whole computer becomes unresponsive for 2 to 3 minutes. Avast is hogging my hdd during this time. Like I said yesterday when I uninstalled Avast 8 and tried MSE the problem went away. I went back to Avast 8 and the problem returned. I like Avast the best so I stick with it. After the 2 to 3 minute lag Avast 8 settles down and my computer is fast and back to normal until the next reboot. I would like to know what Avast is doing during this lag time and see if I can put a stop to it. But it’s not my computer and it’s definitely not my internet connection. I did try the settings within Avast that Aventador suggested and it made no difference. I wish I could find the old post here from about a month ago. There were a few other people that were complaining about the same thing. Someone had a script or something similar that he used that solved the problem. I should have paid closer attention to that post but at the time the lag wasn’t bothering me as bad as it is now. To me it has to be with Avast since the lag went away when I uninstalled Avast and used MSE. I guess for now I’ll just live with it and go get a snack or a drink of water when I boot up.