My laptop pauses (with no HD activity) just after the blue windows xp screen finishes. My desktop wallpaper comes up, and sits for 60-70 seconds, with no icons, taskbar, etc. No HD activity. I assume it's network related....but don't know what. No other pc's on the network behave like this. No virusus, adware, etc present. Other than the long boot, the system works fine. Thanks for any help. Thanks...