Try disconnecting your PC from the cable modem and see what happens. If it works allright after that, then you might be having a program running on the background that every time you open something, it tries to send info to the net. Possibly a spyware program, and the first i suspect is Gator, made by lamers who need to be shut down forever. Check you running processes from the task manager and try to locate anything that has to do with "gain_trickler" or "CMEII" or something like that anyway.

When I disable both my network connections, then everything is fine and there is no problem, but as soon as I enable one of them, this delays tarts to happens.
 
I have checked the processes and found nothing like that there.
 
I will list the processes soon.
 
A.R.

"both NICs"? what's the other 1 connected to?

Couldn't help noticing that you have Norton's running on your machine. On some machines Norton's acts like a 500lb gorilla interfering and thus slowing things down. With two NIC's and Norton's you have more than enough reason to have delays. Why two Nic's by the way?

He has a cable modem, one NICs probably servicing that while the others servicing his local LAN...

Here's a couple of things you can try.
 
Type ncpa.cpl in the Run box and press Enter.
In the Network Connections window, click Advanced, then select Advanced Settings.
On the Adapters and Bindings tab, in the Connections box, make sure your LAN connection is at the top, and your Internet connection is second, with Remote Access connections last. Highlight an item and click the arrows to move them if necessary. Then click OK.
 
 
If that got you nowhere, you can try deleting this registry key.
 
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace\{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}]
 
What that does is stops Explorer from searching the network for scheduled processes whenever it is opened. To save you time digging in regedit, you can download this file and double click it to delete the key. Use this file to set it back to default if you want to.
 
If these didn't help, sorry. At least you killed some time.

If, as the Admiral surmises, you have one Nic for your Cable/DSL connection and one for your network, you might think about a Linksys router. You would then need only the one Nic in your computer going to the Linksys with the Cable/Modem and rest of the Network going to the other inputs in the router. It would actually make your system more secure, and it would put all the work of monitoring activity on the network on the router rather than your computer.

Hi Davros
 
I tried that, it seems to be working for My Computer, but the rest of the system such as any apps (.bat files or .exe or even Control Panel) dont.
 
Any other suggestions?
 
Thanks