OS: win2k
Connection: dialup

As window boots "preparing network connections" takes a long time and when it finishs everything is fine EXCEPT for the internet...
it dials... it verifies u/p.... But then it TOTALLY freezes when it says registering on network and takes like 10min to do its job...

found these errors that seemed to the source of my slowed PC performance
How do i get rid of these errors???

Error 1:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7011
Description:
Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response from the Dnscache service.

Error 2:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Perflib
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1015
Description:
The timeout waiting for the performance data collection function "PerfProc" in the "C:\WINNT\system32\perfproc.dll" Library to finish has expired. There may be a problem with this extensible counter or the service it is collecting data from or the system may have been very busy when this call was attempted.

By any chance Error 2 is related to Error 1??
any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

The errors are related. Who's your ISP? From your description, it's likely that when you installed the software provided by them, it installed so-called quality-of-service (QoS) software. This is bloatware that does little more than invade your privacy and slow things down.

You haven't exactly been hijacked, though the effects are similar. Go to the HijackThis Quick Start Page and read the instructions after you download the program, then post the results here.