K, this is really bugging me. I didnt have this prob when I installed earlier this morning.
Now when i load up, and my account shows up, i choose it, log in, and it loads. THe desktop appears, i can see my short cuts and links, the task bar appears etc etc, but the system is in "busy mode" for about 6 or so mins, and hten POOF its back to normal and everything is good to go again. The lil annoying "learn how to get your .net passport" thing appears.
I remember somthing simliar to this happening on a win98 machine when the system was trying to get a DHCP address or somthing, and it took a hell of a long timet o load. Seems similar here, but i dont know what to do to fix it? my network settings are fine, everything is setup fine,...... I have to use DHCP but the gateway and dns stuff is all fine. When it finally "kicks" in, the network icon beside the clock then appears and i have no prob surfing the internet. Should i remove DHCP and just 'hard code' the IP# in there?
So what hte hell is going on? How do i fix this??? P3 900 half gig of ram laptop is the system its on.
heres another one...
CTRL+ALT+DEL in winxp does not bring up the abilty to lock the screen... i only see the task mon... LOCK COMPUTER does not appear anywhere... I dont press CTRL ALT DEL to log on either. How do i enable that???
whats up with that? its not in the start button thingy either by shutdown/log off.
Now when i load up, and my account shows up, i choose it, log in, and it loads. THe desktop appears, i can see my short cuts and links, the task bar appears etc etc, but the system is in "busy mode" for about 6 or so mins, and hten POOF its back to normal and everything is good to go again. The lil annoying "learn how to get your .net passport" thing appears.
I remember somthing simliar to this happening on a win98 machine when the system was trying to get a DHCP address or somthing, and it took a hell of a long timet o load. Seems similar here, but i dont know what to do to fix it? my network settings are fine, everything is setup fine,...... I have to use DHCP but the gateway and dns stuff is all fine. When it finally "kicks" in, the network icon beside the clock then appears and i have no prob surfing the internet. Should i remove DHCP and just 'hard code' the IP# in there?
So what hte hell is going on? How do i fix this??? P3 900 half gig of ram laptop is the system its on.
heres another one...
CTRL+ALT+DEL in winxp does not bring up the abilty to lock the screen... i only see the task mon... LOCK COMPUTER does not appear anywhere... I dont press CTRL ALT DEL to log on either. How do i enable that???
whats up with that? its not in the start button thingy either by shutdown/log off.