XP hangs on boot if it can't find mapped drives.

[SteveM]

I have a laptop user who started having a problem about 2 weeks ago.
If this user cannot connect to all the mapped drives then XP will boot
to windows but not finish, it will show the hourglass and not let you
click on any icon or the start button. The system will remain like
this and is unusable. The only way around is to kill the explorer
process, restart explorer then very quickly click start and browse to
"my computer". If you can get to my computer within about 2 seconds it
will give you an error from the systray stating that it cannot connect
to the mapped drives and you can then use the system as normal. If
you do not, the system will again try to locate the mapped drives and
just sit forever becoming unusable. If I disconnect all the mapped
drives, the system boots normally, if I re-add them the problem
resurfaces.

Any one else have this problem? This windows XP SP3 with all the
current updates.

 

[SteveM]

I have a laptop user who started having a problem about 2 weeks ago.
If this user cannot connect to all the mapped drives then XP will boot
to windows but not finish, it will show the hourglass and  not let you
click on any icon or the start button.  The system will remain like
this and is unusable.   The only way around is to kill the explorer
process, restart explorer then very quickly click start and browse to
"my computer". If you can get to my computer within about 2 seconds it
will give you an error from the systray stating that it cannot connect
to the mapped drives and you can then use the system as normal.   If
you do not, the system will again try to locate the mapped drives and
just sit forever becoming unusable.   If I disconnect all the mapped
drives, the system boots normally, if I re-add them the problem
resurfaces.

Any one else have this problem?   This windows XP SP3 with all the
current updates.

No one?

 

[Elmo]

I have a laptop user who started having a problem about 2 weeks ago.
If this user cannot connect to all the mapped drives then XP will boot
to windows but not finish, it will show the hourglass and not let you
click on any icon or the start button. The system will remain like
this and is unusable. The only way around is to kill the explorer
process, restart explorer then very quickly click start and browse to
"my computer". If you can get to my computer within about 2 seconds it
will give you an error from the systray stating that it cannot connect
to the mapped drives and you can then use the system as normal. If
you do not, the system will again try to locate the mapped drives and
just sit forever becoming unusable. If I disconnect all the mapped
drives, the system boots normally, if I re-add them the problem
resurfaces.

Any one else have this problem? This windows XP SP3 with all the
current updates.

You should try a networking group where such problems are discussed.
That said, here's a Google thread that might help:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...72be?q=mapped+drives+hang+xp#f846e1ee77165e20

Continue the search here.. maybe teak the search parameters:

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q="mapped+drives"+hang+xp&sitesearch=&sa=N&start=10