Dave, I ran the Startuplite progam again and restarted the pc but did not notice any difference in the system lag issue. I will go to the browser section of this site to see what needs to be done to remove this little glitch affecting the startup process. So all in all my yahoo is now working great now and and am well armed against any malware or spyware in the future. On a further note the link you provided to cleanup the registry as well as improve peformance is really comprehensive and well written. There are some great tips on there . Thanks again Dave for all the help.
