> A few months ago some Internet-enabled applications in my system will not
> load for around 10 minutes after Windows starts up. The process will launch
> and show in the  Task Manager task list but will then stay at the same memory
> usage level for about 10 minutes without displaying any windows. After 10
> minutes it will continue to load fully.
>
> Some of these applications include browsers Mozilla Firefox and Internet
> Explorer (but not Google Chrome), the Steam client application, the Pidgin IM
> client and possibly a few others that don't come to mind. Other
> Internet-enabled applications do load and access the Internet as normal (e.g.
> Mozilla Thunderbird).
>
> Based on observing the Task Manager process list, this problem seems to
> coincide with the alg.exe process as these applications will not load until
> alg.exe has loaded after Windows has been running for 10 minutes. Manually
> attempting to run alg.exe does not work so I suspect it is not the alg.exe
> that is causing the problem. (I have also noted that no user names are
> displayed in the task list duration this 10 minute period also but display
> after 10 minutes.)
>
> The only action I remember taking around the same time this problem started
> showing up was replacing an older nVidia graphics card with a nVidia GeForce
> 9600 GT but I cannot be sure that coincided exactly.
>
> I have readhttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/832161/but,
> although the problem described sounds similar, the solutions did not apply
> (WebClient is already listed last in the Provider Order tab).
>
> I'm running Windows XP Home SP3 with the latest updates and Kaspersky
> Internet Security 8 with latest updates and have run all latest virus and
> spyware checks.
>
> Thanks for your replies.

"smlunatick" wrote:

> On May 14, 10:19 pm, SparkPlug <SparkP***@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> > A few months ago some Internet-enabled applications in my system will not
> > load for around 10 minutes after Windows starts up. The process will launch
> > and show in the  Task Manager task list but will then stay at the same memory
> > usage level for about 10 minutes without displaying any windows. After 10
> > minutes it will continue to load fully.
> >
> > Some of these applications include browsers Mozilla Firefox and Internet
> > Explorer (but not Google Chrome), the Steam client application, the Pidgin IM
> > client and possibly a few others that don't come to mind. Other
> > Internet-enabled applications do load and access the Internet as normal (e.g.
> > Mozilla Thunderbird).
> >
> > Based on observing the Task Manager process list, this problem seems to
> > coincide with the alg.exe process as these applications will not load until
> > alg.exe has loaded after Windows has been running for 10 minutes. Manually
> > attempting to run alg.exe does not work so I suspect it is not the alg.exe
> > that is causing the problem. (I have also noted that no user names are
> > displayed in the task list duration this 10 minute period also but display
> > after 10 minutes.)
> >
> > The only action I remember taking around the same time this problem started
> > showing up was replacing an older nVidia graphics card with a nVidia GeForce
> > 9600 GT but I cannot be sure that coincided exactly.
> >
> > I have readhttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/832161/but,
> > although the problem described sounds similar, the solutions did not apply
> > (WebClient is already listed last in the Provider Order tab).
> >
> > I'm running Windows XP Home SP3 with the latest updates and Kaspersky
> > Internet Security 8 with latest updates and have run all latest virus and
> > spyware checks.
> >
> > Thanks for your replies.
>
> Please note that FireFox has always been slow to start up.
>