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Win2k Login Annoyance

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Is anyone else annoyed at Win2k in that when you login there is a 10 - 30 second period where you cannot click on anything, even though the mouse pointer is not an hourglass? If you try to click on stuff it all queues up and happens all at once when the delay has elapsed. It's really annoying and I consider it to be a bug.

NT 4.0 never did this, nor did any version of 9x. It's really starting to grind my nerves.
 
my main machine (Athlon is system rigs does this), but yet my Celeron 2 machine doesn't
could it be something to do with my SCSI/Network card?
 
Do you use creative's drivers for the sb live? If so, then try uninstalling liveware and just use the drivers that windows comes with. I had the same problem when I used Creative's drivers for win2k...

 
Wizkid. Actually I do. I will give that a shot. It happens to me at work too and I don't have a SB Live there. I think the delay is caused by all the little applets starting in the task tray. I can see how initing the sound card would cause it because the volume applet is the first to start up on my system. Then the network, AIM, etc.

Thanks for the advice.
 
The main problem is not with any of the drivers you have installed on your machines, but rather that Windows 2000 wants to update any DNS records with the DNS server it is configured with. If you have a NIC installed, I would goto the properties of the Local Area Connection, and then go to the properties of TCP/IP. From there, click on the Advanced button, and then on DNS. Down at the bottom of that window, you will see a checkmark box that says "Register this connection in DNS" or something like that. Un-ckeck it. It should not be checked unless you have a Windows 2000 network that has a Dynamic DNS server.
 
Thanks for the tip Shadow. I was having the same occurance with my main PC. I have to check it out the next time I restart. When ever that will be. 🙂
 
thanks for the tip I will try that out

and so very true. still haven't crashed in Win2k yet! 🙂 This OS is great.
 
I tryed that DNS tip and it didn't help with the boot up delay.

I am thinking that it is something to do with the Sound Blaster Live Card.

My other system uses onboard sound (for now) and it doesn't have the problem.
 
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