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WinXP Startup Delay

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PrincessGuard

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When I boot into XP, there is a ~30 sec delay before I can use My Computer even though there is no more disk activity. If I try to open My Computer, I get the searching flashlight icon until time is up. I have no mapped drives, there is no CD-ROM drive activity.

I found that disabling the Workstation service fixes this. However, doing that also disables My Network Places.

Is there any other way around it?
 
Do you have DHCP enabled? If so, input any bogus internal ip/subnet & see if that helps.
 
Originally posted by: PrincessGuard
When I boot into XP, there is a ~30 sec delay before I can use My Computer even though there is no more disk activity. If I try to open My Computer, I get the searching flashlight icon until time is up. I have no mapped drives, there is no CD-ROM drive activity.

I found that disabling the Workstation service fixes this. However, doing that also disables My Network Places.

Is there any other way around it?
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had this problem happen to me on one computer, still happing on this one actually, i kinda think its because my hard drives are so bogged down.
 
Its your NIC card searching for an IP most likely...

Go to NEtwork Properties...

LAN connection, right click, Properties, TCP IP, Properties...

Set your own IP, Most any will do...

Set your sub mask to 255.255.255.0

🙂
 
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