IE6 Application start slow on XP_sp2

Hi All,

I am using IE6 (Microsoft Internet Explorer v6.0.2) on Windows XP_sp2
for nearly 1 year without any problem..

I have Norton Antivirus, ZoneAlarm Pro Firewall, Microsoft AntiSpyware
(beta) on my system to protect my system from possible intruders and
viruses..

To my bad fate, 1 month back I connected to my (dialup) internet, after
disabling all the above protectors (for some other reason).. that too
only for a period of 3 minutes...

Some nasty ADWARE HACKED my IE6 and attached some UI to the tool-bar,
when I was browsing thru some websites..

I somehow managed to remove those things from the IE UI.. I forgot how
I did.

But after that, My IE started to load slowly..

"LOAD SLOWLY" in the sense, it is loading pages in the as-usual speed,

But it IE application itself loads very slowly (takes 8 to 25
seconds)...

I searched thru the lot of webpages, groups, forums here and there to
find a proper solution for this.. I dont find any proper solution...
and I also tried with various registry and IE-application-folder
manipulation advised by most.. but in vein..

Have you faced a problem like this.. if so.. how do u go and fix it..
or is there a solution without reinstalling IE6 or XP.. since I have my
XP&IE with all the latest updates.. I am not willing to do it once
more as it is a time and internet consuming process (mine is a 115kb
dialup connection)

expecting ur help

Thanks & regards

R.Padmakumar
paxi_9@yahoo.com