vista unresponsive at startup - lanmanserver

[drew]

After I login to Vista, it is unresponsive for 5-10 minutes. Throughout
this time the service "lanmanserver" is "starting up". Does anyone know how
to make this required service start more quickly?

I may be on the wrong path all-together. Are there other reasons for the
system to hang for serveral minutes after login? The only program I seem to
be able to run is firefox. IE, MSN messenger, etc., don't run for several
minutes until all the services have started. Thanks!

-Drew

 

[Guest]

After I login to Vista, it is unresponsive for 5-10 minutes. Throughout
this time the service "lanmanserver" is "starting up". Does anyone know how
to make this required service start more quickly?

I don't have this issue.

 

[MKR]

Did not work for me at all, no difference for the start-up
I cut the shut down time to 10 secs. before I applied the suggested
registry hack. I also disabled a number of not need services, cancelled the
infamous memory hog sidebar, disabled a number of start-up programs. The
start-up time came down somewhat but still is over the suggested 10 -30
secs. So what is the purpose of this registry hack?

MKR