WinXP Pro takes about 6 mins after I log on til the system is usuable. DHCP issue with the network card?

THELAIR

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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.

 

marat

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<< 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.
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AT

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I have a very similar problem. When I log in Norton Antivirus wont start real time protection and Internet Explorer wont show anything. Network connection is working, Opera and SSH client work just fine.

Then suddenly everything starts to work after about a minute or so. I tried XP anti spy and removed all automatic services but to no help.
 

THELAIR

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I just did a reinstall of Windows XP and this issue arrived immediatly once i installed norton system works 2002 (typical install)

It is what gummed up my entire system, I only need 3 pieces of software, the AV, GHOST and maybe the disk speed up one.

Im going to uninstall norton and try again and see if that does anything