10 second pause to get to "Task Manager" WHY?

[Dave Niemeyer]

Why do most of our machines take nearly 10 seconds to display the "task
manager" after we do "ctrl-alt-delete" and choose "task manager"? Haven't
seen this behavior before until winxpSP2. This is on several types of
hardware, all winxpSP2.

Dave Niemeyer

 

[Andre Da Costa]

See link:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-GB;842628

Andre

 

[Alex Nichol]

Why do most of our machines take nearly 10 seconds to display the "task
manager" after we do "ctrl-alt-delete" and choose "task manager"? Haven't
seen this behavior before until winxpSP2. This is on several types of
hardware, all winxpSP2.

CAD and *choose* task manager? Something has got in on the act here.
Task manager should just come up with no intermediate 'choose' stage.
Run a thorough AV and Anti-spyware check, with definitions right up to
date

 

[Bob I]

No, Alex, CAD gets you the "Security Pane". As to why the Task manager
takes so long I don't know, tho.

 

[Alexander Grigoriev]

XP in domain.

CAD and *choose* task manager? Something has got in on the act here.
Task manager should just come up with no intermediate 'choose' stage.
Run a thorough AV and Anti-spyware check, with definitions right up to
date

 

[Alex Nichol]

No, Alex, CAD gets you the "Security Pane". As to why the Task manager
takes so long I don't know, tho.

On this machine, and all XP machines I have seen (at any Service Pack
Level) CAD gets Task Manager.

What do you mean by 'Security Pane' anyway? SP2 Security Center?
(which is not brought up by CAD)

 

[Bob I]

Logon "Windows Security" pane, allows password change, logoff, Task manager.