Re: XP Professional hangs on boot for several minutes

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From: Robert L [MS-MVP] (noreply_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:12:25 -0500

this may help. quoted from http://www.ChicagoTech.net
Why is XP running slower while logon 1

When I login into a Windows 2000 active directory from a new xp pro machine
the login in is extremely slow. After logged on, everything works fine. But
other windows versions don't have this problem.
A: This is almost like name resolution issue. Comparing with previous
versions, XP is heavily dependent on DNS to find DC. If the DNS is
configured incorrectly, XP will take longer time waiting for it to timeout
before it tries using NetBIOS. Make sure
1) The DNS setup correct and have the server information.
2) XP clients can find the DNS server.
3) XP machine's DNS server is pointed to your internal DNS server rather
than your ISP's DNS server.
4) Make sure no errors on logon scripts or GPO's that could be causing
the delay.
5) Check any errors on event viewer.
6) Disable NetBIOS on the interfaces that client will not use. 

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"Ryan" <nikespex@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:f05919fc.0409230408.44901dcd@posting.google.com...
> When I boot Windows XP Professional, it loads my desktop, and a few of
> my startup applications, then hangs for approximately 1 - 2 minutes
> before magically continuing to load my remaining startup applications.
>
> Is their any way to diagnose what might be causing this extended
> pause?
>
> The machine is a notebook with a wireless network connection.  The
> pause occurs before the network connection settings are loaded.  I am
> wondering if perhaps Windows is searching for network resources prior
> to actually establishing network connections???

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