If starting up is considerably slower than usual, that'd suggest your having picked up a nastie of some sort.
Ahh, just saw you're doing a scan (AV?) .. that'll invariably slow everything waaay down while it's running.
Will be curious to know if you're able to d/l anything after the reboot.
It is slow, it is scanning and the cookie problem isn’t there now. Hmmm. lets see if it picks up after the scan.
on my task manager at dllhos.exe*32 it says COMSurrogate
Something I haven’t noticed before but I did intenstall some remote printers last week.