XP SP1 fine, NOW prob w/ SP2 Help!

[helicopter]

OK gents, please help. Win XP home SP ONE was running absolutely fantastic and FAST...
until I bought an IPOD Touch and NEED SP2. I DL'd it and NOW both FIREFOX and
the wonderful NEW and Freeking improved IE7 Is SO SLOW.....I want to take my life!
Just kiddin on that!
B4 SP2, I would open the weather dot com page in less than 500 milliseconds complete
with all graphics! NOW that same task in both FF and IE take 20 seconds to open
one stinkin page!
I have a very fast machine: Gigabyte P35/intel Core 2 duo conroe at 2.13ghtz and
the new alpha dog GT8800 vid card, 2 gig ram. We W E R E just a rockin.

WHAT CAN I DO!>>>?

Thanks for any help, oh and a free prize of considerable value will be granted my prince!

Watchin and a waitin. Helicopter :confused:

[Floppyman]

Hi,

Did you by chance run a spyware/anti-virus check before you installed SP2?

It is possible that windows' winsock layer somehow got corrupted during the upgrade or from spyware.

First see:

http://swatrant.blogspot.com/2005/08/repair-winsock-in-windows-xp-sp2.html

which is based off the following Microsoft KB Article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811259

(see the instructions for Windows XP with Service Pack 2)

Hope this helps and let us know how things turn out.

[juppy]

Might also try defragging your hard drive. Things might have gotten a little jumbled and broken up after installing all those files in SP2.

[helicopter]

Floppy:
I did find an interesting new boot error flag. Is THIS related to winsock:
wf2kcpl.dll ???
If you don't know what it is, where do I go at Microsoft to find what it is?
Still working on it...
H

[glc]

No, that's your video card tuning software. If you do not have a Leadtek Winfast video card, then it's malware.

[helicopter]

G: I used to have a winfast card before I rebuilt the whole machine.
Seems like a power 'bump' due to a local Ice Storm, lasting half a second
took my mobo down. I tried a new PS: nuttin. Tried the old winfast card
up at the PC repair shop, it was fine. Decided to buy a new mobo
with pci express 2 and that really fast gt8800. After the build, things were
so to speak just screaming along super fast. A joy to be sure.
NOW, I open a page in firefox and wait, wait and wait for a full page.
Same thing over on IE7 - just unrepentingly SLOW...
Winsock must be AOK, cause I do get a fine connection on email and Itunes app.
I think somehow this SP2 security must be somehow causal to slowness.

Any other thoughts?
Thanks!
H