Hi guys - sorry to come in late on this - but I though it would be better to post to this thread than start another one… ok ?

I acquired a Sony Vaio laptop in April and experienced XP for the first time, having used AvastHome for about 2 years on Win2000.
All was fine at first - but then one day in July (2006) or so Avast updated itself and I started to get this 30 second delay in startups.

Several programs would startup, but none could make copntact with the web until approx a 30 second delay ocurred, and then suddenly Avast proceeded to load the web shield etc and the startup process completed.

Can someone knowledgable tell me if this is the same delay problem described above ? Can the delay tool really fix this ?

Much obliged

Saoir
[Avast Home ; Sygate Personal Firewall]