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DOS app very slow opening

Hi All,

I have a strange problem with a DOS application which runs off W2K laptops. When the laptops are connected to the LAN and swithced on for a full boot up the dos app opens fine. But when the laptops are off the LAN or if the LAN cable is inserted when the OS is fully loaded up then the DOS application takes an age to start/open!. This is also true when exiting the DOS app.
I have tried fiddling with the DOS app's memory settings etc.
Any help is great!
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check contentsd of autoexec.nt and config.nt - both in system32.  paste them here
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Yes I had already checked these; just the usual stuff in there e.g.
dos=high, umb
device=%SystemRoot%\system32\himem.sys
files=100
buffers=30,0

(this was the config.nt)
 autoexec was :

set field_date=british
set blinker=/ek-

Nothing that I think would cause this problem.

Thanks,
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ok.  Can you descrivbe what the app does.  Esp in networking terms, if anything.  Is it pulling files from shares or anything?  Does it open any temp files?  Perhaps yoy might need to use sysinternals.com's filemon to monitor any file access, if you do not actually know the app well.
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True, I don't know the app well but I thought a couple of  DOS 'tweaks' may fix it?? I do know it does not use any shared drives.
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