Service Pack 1 and Server Service

[DHILL]

When I updated to sp1 a few months ago. I have a HP 753n with xp
home. I noticed that it took my computer 5 to 15 minutes to boot
completely. The wallpaper and icons appear, but the system is still
loading files up to 15 minutes later. NAV also took a while to change
from disabled to enabled. When I disabled the server service
everything was fine. I needed to access my PC to share a printer and
a directory, so I enabled server again. If I start the server service
after I boot (manually) it loads quickly. If I enable it in msconfig,
I get the long boot problem. I decided to reload the OS to the
original factory build. I did all of the windows xp updates except
sp1. Everything works fine now, including loading server in the boot
sequence. Two questions:

Has anyone else had this problem with server services?
Has anyone had this problem with XP Pro (I'm thinking about
upgrading)?

 

[Richard Keirle]

Back up or out to floppy or cd-r ALL your irreplaceable data files - email
address book as a *.wab and as a *.csv {select all fields}, and then double
check that you've backed everything out and then look around your hard-disk
again and again!
And then check all the above again.
Now make sure that you have all necessary drivers ready to hand should you
need to reinstall your system from scratch,
which, from what you've described, is what you're well on the way to doing


regards, Richard