Workstation Service and Applying Computer Settings

[Guest]

I have about 100 computers on my network. Most are XPsp2 or Win2k. AD
Domain Server 2003. All computers are HP. Recently, since November, I have
had a few computers that will be very slow during startup and stay at the
Applying Computer Settings for several minutes. Once they have logged in the
user gets a message that all network drives cannot be connected. I have them
go to the computer manager and start the workstation service and everything
is fine. Ironically this is on the Main Boss' computer, and he ain't too
happy. He is a local administrator and doesn't have any issues starting with
my instructions via the phone. But I need to know why the service is not
starting. I feel like it is a windows update but I cannot figure which one
it is.

 

[Guest]

Ths system is trying to connect to a mapped drive, or a network printer that
is no longer online the workstation is waiting, for each letter, a certain
amount of time for the connection to timeout.

Unmap the drives, remove the printers, logout so it saves on that profile.
and it should be good to go.


On that workstation service - set it to automatic startup, and the recovery
tab, to restart the service. reset fail count for 1 day.

 

[Guest]

I like your idea about the recovery option, didn't think about that. Will
definetly try that. The drives are mapped and since the workstatioin service
is not started they cannot reconnect, therefore an error.

 

[Guest]

I have found today that there are several services not starting up. They are
all services with this as the executable
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs

Any help would be nice