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Windows 2000 desktop takes forever to start up

When I start my machine and log on it takes 2 minutes before any of the items on the desktop show up. All of the programs that start automatically have started. but after that my system does nothing for 2 minutes and then the desktop items come up.

I upgraded from windows 98 and installed Service pack 2 and installed everything on windows update site.

Does anyone know how I can get the process that loads the desktop to kick off on time. Maybe a registry setting or something like that.

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kahlean

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jhance

At what point does this happen? There are a number of things that cause this to happen at the "Preparing Network Connections" dialog but most are fixed with SP2.

Do you have a network card? If so, is it set for "Obtain IP Address Automatically" (a.k.a. DHCP)? If so, is ther a DHCP server on your network? If not, this may well be the problem.

Frankly, however, you given far to little information for us to do anything but speculate.

stevenlewis

agree with jhance. need more info. Are you on a network, and are you using roaming profiles? Is your profile a large one?

pesst

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I have a cable modem and I have it obtain an IP automatically

jhance

Again I ask:

At what point does this happen? There are a number of things that cause this to happen at the "Preparing
Network Connections" dialog but most are fixed with SP2.

pesst

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I just unchecked the "show web content on my active desktop" box in the web settings and it fixed it.

Thanks