XP Pro slow network startup

[robert]

Im sick of this! I have tried different network cards including
wireless, XP boots to the desktop in good time but then the system is
unusable (freezes if you open my computer) until the network has
started (indicated by the network icon appearing in the system tray
then everything is ok).

I tried changing the "always wait for the network at computer startup
and logon" but obviously that just moved the delay to when the computer
starts, cannot logon until the network starts.

This stupid fault is adding an extra minute to the startup process and
it seems a lot of other people are having the same problem, is there a
workaround? Nothing on Microsoft's website, probably cant be bothered
to fix it as all there developers are busy with Vista which is far more
important lol

oh yeah and if you disabled the adaptor and then re-enabled it takes
about 3 seconds to initialise and get an IP address, our DNS servers
are fine too.

 

[Guest]

Hard to say without knowing a bit more about your network config, but it
sounds like there are persistent connections present, possibly to computers
which aren't visible, and which are required for apps that run at startup.

Could also be a roaming-profile issue.

Could also be you've got a Trojan. Scan with Ad-Aware or the like, and
check for suspicious processes.

 

[robert]

Persistent connections? I'll assume u mean persistent mapped drives,
these wouldnt cause the slow startup, they will just freeze
explorer.exe if you try and access them before the network starts up.
There is no spyware or viruses.