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Vista: Huge Pause After Login

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clickynext

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After I boot Vista and log into my account so that the desktop is displayed, the whole system basically locks up for 30 to 60 seconds. In that time, I can move my mouse around and the start menu opens, but whenever I try to open a program or anything, nothing happens. Then afterwards it loads all my startup programs and such.

I've had this same problem since beta 1. As far as I can tell every time it's been there since a fresh install.

Anyone experience this as well?
 
ONly time i have seen something simiilar is after installing VMWare Workstation. Its not the app itself I am sure... it is the virtual hardware / drivers.

More details of your hardware is probably needed to start having a decent guess which it is.
 
Hardware:

Asus P5P800SE
Pentium D 805
Seagate Barracuda HDD
Radeon 9600 Pro AIW
Sound Blaster Live 5.1
Some generic USB Card
D-Link DWL122 USB Wireless Network Adpater

Thanks...
 
Could be Windows sidebar? That seems to load first most of the time and can make Vista crawl for a bit before loading other startup programs.
 
The soundblaster would be my 1st guess.... does it even have drivers in Vista?

Second culprit could be the WLAN NIC but as I own neither piece of hardware its impossible for me to confirm either.

Try removing them and see if you still have the issue still
 
I've had pauses like what you describe from DLink wireless adapters in my xp mce rig. I think overall DLink is crap and I won't be purchasing another of their products until they right the ship. Try disabling the proprietary software that comes with it and let windows manage it (that sometimes helped me).
 
This happened to me I had to change my SATA settings in my Bios, the Nvidia SATA controller was fine but I had to disable the Silicon Image SATA controller and it sped up ten fold.
 
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