Explorer comes up slow

[Guest]

Hi all:

I am using XP professional (SP2) on IBM ThinkPad T42 Laptop.

Recently, we moved to a new company and the old company's IT dept went
through some cleanup and rekeying the MS office apps for the new comany on
our laptops. There were hundreds going through this process. However, only 2
of us are seeing this issue on our machines.
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I am frustrated by this problem:
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-Explorer comes up slowly when conected to network (it comes up fast when
the computer is not connected to the network). It takes 40-60 secs to come
up, some times more.
- The same is true about all other network related applications (outlook,
remote desktop, etc.).
- Staring one of this applications while connected to the network prevents
me to do anything else on the laptop (the machine is forzen while the app is
tring to come up). After the app comes up, there are periodic slow downs.

As I mentioned before, it only happens when the laptop is connected to a
network (whether at work or at home).

I have no idea how this has happened. It was working well some time last
week and now it is not.
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These are the things I have done so far as counter measures after detecting
the problem:
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- Removed all items in the network places.
- Removed all the old printers.
- Deleted the cookies.
- Deleted all the *.tmp files on the HD.
- Cleaned up the Temp Internet folder and the temp folder.
- Ran spybot and adware.
- Ran Symentic antivirus.
- Emptied the recyle bin.

So far, nothing has worked. My theory is that something is timming out when
my computer is connected to the network. That may be why these network
applications are slow in comming up.

Any ideas?!!

Many thanks.

 

[Paul Mckenna]

I'd have to say if only two PCs out of hundreds have the problem then maybe
a reformat would be the best solution.. your problems to me suggest a DNS
issue but with only two PCs showing problems... backup up your data and
format your PC. i think it would be a waste of money and time trying to find
why it happened!

 

[Guest]

Thank you Paul. We sure can try that. However, the new IT dept is in the
process of settling down and won't get to fix my problem for a while. I need
to get some of my work done on this machine.

Do you have any other suggestions.

Thanks,
Ron.

 

[Paul Mckenna]

i would have to say maybe your computer is trying to connect to a previous
network.. you could try running the command promt and typing netstat why
your pc is slow to see what connections it's trying to make, other than that
maybe running a program like ethereal to capture the network traffiic.. i
suspect your pc is looking for a pc/server/domain that's no longer
available but it's finding it that could be hard.

 

[Guest]

We fixed the problem!

It turns out that there was some thing wrong with my user profile. We
created a new user on this laptop and it did not have a problem. We purged
the current user's profile and transfer the data from the old profile to the
new one. Now every thing works fine. I think this solution was better than
reformatting since I have some apps that would be hard to re-install.

Thanks,
Ron.