Slow start applications when network enabled.

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I have several systems that are taking up to 1.2 minutes to launch
applications. Once the apps launch they run like champs. During the launch
explorer seems to hang. I have run All AV solutions, spyware etc. No logical
signs. But for instance if I open MS Word it takes 1.1 minutes to launch. If
I disabled the NIC it opens instantly. This is the same will all apps
including things like control panel. I am at my wits end. I have tried the
"slow right-click" solution and no go. HELP!
 
I have heard of a similar problem like this before when I read your post. So
I did some digging to find information. A couple of weeks ago I was reading
Mark Russinovich's blog (he's the guy that co-founded sysinternals, and
winternals) and had read about a bug that he found that's similar to what you
have. If you have Windows Defender Beta 2 installed or running on your system
then this might be the culprit.

Mark's blog where I saw this:
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2006/08/31/453100.aspx

From what he says Microsoft is working on a fix for this problem, but it
probably won't be available until they come out with a beta 3 version or a
full blown non-beta version.

So the fix: either disable it from starting up with your computer, or if
it's service based change it's service to manual startup, or uninstall it and
use other programs (Ad Aware, Spybot, etc.).

-Dan
 
You also see this when the user's PATH statement includes a network path, as
the application will search that network location for all of it's .exe's and
..dll files and other config information. This can take many minutes if the
application loads a long list of binaries during start. Removing the
network path(s) from the user's PATH environment variable cleans this up
every time.
 
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