IE Slow Opening First Time

[depawl]

This is a Dell Dimension 3000 running XP Home SP2 with broadband (Time Warner cable) internet. After a restart of the computer, when opening IE for the first time, it opens very slowly. It takes about half a minute for the Home Page to open. I tried changing the home page and it made no difference. Once the home page loads, browsing is fine. All other pages load very quickly and if I close and reopen IE, the home page will then also load very quickly. It's only after starting the computer and opening IE for the first time that the problem exists. I have ran thorough virus/spyware cleaning and all scans currently come back clean.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[ozrom1e]

More than likely the internet options might have the setting to clear the cache on exit, if this is the case then IE would load slow the first time. I have mine set that way but also I use Firefox basically because it has a built-in spell checker and IE does not.

 

[depawl]

Ozrom:
Thanks, but IE is not set to clear cache on exit. And the problem only occurs after restarting the computer. If I just close out of IE and then reopen it, the home page comes up very quickly. After a restart of the computer however it takes forever.

 

[BioStormX]

Well, I'm sure at least the reason why it loads fast after the first time is because it tends to stay in memory once you've opened it.

As to why it loads so slow the first time, I don't know.

 

[depawl]

Resetting IE (Tools|Internet Options|Advanced|Reset) corrected the problem.
Thanks for the input.