Boot up delay with wireless card

[Ron P]

I was hoping for some guidance or advice please. I have a Dell 9200 Laptop
with a dell 1450 wireless internal network card. Vista boots up to the
desktop quick, less than 15 seconds. I can access the internet almost
immediately after boot, but the network connection icon in the tray stays
with a red x for about another 20 to 30 second before it turns normal.
While it stays like this, any other PC functions are stuck. I mean I cannot
open windows explorer or do much else. Once it turns to "normal" everything
else I tried to do happens right after. How can I trace or resolve this
delay? Thanks

 

[MICHAEL]

I was hoping for some guidance or advice please. I have a Dell 9200 Laptop with a dell 1450
wireless internal network card. Vista boots up to the desktop quick, less than 15 seconds. I
can access the internet almost immediately after boot, but the network connection icon in the
tray stays with a red x for about another 20 to 30 second before it turns normal. While it
stays like this, any other PC functions are stuck. I mean I cannot open windows explorer or
do much else. Once it turns to "normal" everything else I tried to do happens right after.
How can I trace or resolve this delay? Thanks

I've noticed that, too. Skype will be connected long before the
network icon indicates a connection. Since I don't reboot often
and everything seems fine, I don't worry about it. It's just one
of those things. It's more than likely just a coincidence that you
can start to do things once the network icon shows it's connected-
the few minutes after rebooting is a busy time for Vista, establishing
a connection is just one of the things Vista is trying to get done
seemingly all at once. Depending on what startup items you have
plus the normal stuff an OS has to go through on boot-up, I don't
think 20 to 30 seconds is a long time to wait before you can start
doing stuff.

If you want to, right after the next boot, take a look in Administrative Tools>Services.
Look at things that might be set to "Manual", especially any network type
functions. See if they say "Started". Try changing them to "Automatic" to
see if that may help.


-Michael

 

[Ron P]

I've noticed that, too. Skype will be connected long before the
network icon indicates a connection. Since I don't reboot often
and everything seems fine, I don't worry about it. It's just one
of those things. It's more than likely just a coincidence that you
can start to do things once the network icon shows it's connected-
the few minutes after rebooting is a busy time for Vista, establishing
a connection is just one of the things Vista is trying to get done
seemingly all at once. Depending on what startup items you have
plus the normal stuff an OS has to go through on boot-up, I don't
think 20 to 30 seconds is a long time to wait before you can start
doing stuff.

If you want to, right after the next boot, take a look in Administrative
Tools>Services.
Look at things that might be set to "Manual", especially any network type
functions. See if they say "Started". Try changing them to "Automatic"
to
see if that may help.


-Michael

Thanks. Had one or two, no appreciable difference.

 

[MICHAEL]

Thanks. Had one or two, no appreciable difference.

Of course, on-the-other-hand, setting some services that aren't needed
at first or at all to "manual" or "disabled" may help.


-Michael