Any way to monitor threads on boot?

Bodine

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Got a new laptop from work a couple months ago and loaded it with our corporate image (XP Pro + apps). Seemed to work OK for a while but now, intermittently, after I log in the system will just hang for up to 5 minutes, after which it finishes booting and everything is fine. It does this coming out of suspend sometimes, too.

I can get to Task Manager while the system is hung, but there are no apps listed in the "Applicatons" tab. I sit and watch the Process tab, but that hasn't given me any good clues. System Idle is 99% the majority of the time. Occasionally one random process or another will grab 2 or 3%, but there's no pattern or obvious culprit.

Is there any way to find out what the system is waiting on - what the last thing the system does before compelting boot? I am up to the latest BIOS/firmware on all components.

Thanks for any advice.
 

Smilin

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Mar 4, 2002
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couple troubleshooting ideas for ya..

Try logging on as a different profile
Use MSConfig to clear startup items and non-MS services
Find out what group policies are applying (or remove from your domain to eliminate for sure)

Also, just out of curiosity, what HAL are you using? (listed under computer in device manager)