first i when its idle how much ram and cpu power does task manager say? secondly have you tryed all the basics? disk defrag, chkdisk, virus scanner and spyware removal?, personally id say its a virus and you just need to clean it befor it gets to far but you didnt say if you had tryed anything yet so ill check in again later

I have used Disk Cleanup, defraged 3 times (went from total red to all blue and nicely compressed. I have used regcure, xoftspySE, spybot and I run the Shield Deluxe all cleaned more than once. There about 14 things in the registry they would not clean. I Run WinPatrol and have disabled about half the startup stuff so.........restarted cold and still not much better. into windows is quick but not getting the network or other startup objects to launch properly. I did see that at idle I have 1-8% usage and that there are 7 versions of svchost.exe running in processes some system, some network service some local service. Next................

dont worry about the svchost.exe its typical to have multiples of it, and you never said how much ram your using, befor you get into any complex solutions have you run a boot time antivirus check, some viruses start at boot so most antivirals wont get to them and that drastically slows boot, if you havent try avast! its free for home use, also how many items are in your system tray(if they all were to boot properly) an excess of them will alsow be detrimental to boot, along with an excess of desktop icons, and can you also tell me if your usinh ati's hydravision,

Hi there

What do you mean with the above quote.if it is viruses then post the names of them.theres no use continuing troubleshooting with viruses on your system
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May be if you can Hijackthis on your machine and get a log off that, try posting it here where we can see without asking you too many questions.

Raj

Thanks for the insight, I will get you the RAM #s this PM, I will try the boot scan as well. I will also attempt to capture the scan results and add them to a post so you all can examine.

Thanks

Run CCleaner and ATF cleaner.

I have run avast, ccleaner, atf cleaner, spybot, and eusing free registery cleaner, the Icons in the activity tyay have returned and I have done everything but reboot. I had additionally found that the items that would not clean were related to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\KasperskyLab\AVP6\profiles\AVService\settings\Excludes\0004\Object\Mask ##### C:\Documents and Settings\Mark C\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\59WQ5G7I\dreamy_setup[1].exe

Or some variation of this. there are about 14 of them

You can go to the following location and manually delete the file in the following location C:\Documents and Settings\Mark C\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\59WQ5G7I\dreamy_setup[1].exe
what i usually do is delete all temporary files cos some viruses tend to make them selfs @home in the location.
See how it behaves after that
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