windows XP hangs for 10-15 min on startup untill the network icon appears

Hello,

Are the 2 XP machines identical?  Is there a 3rd XP machine with identical configuration that is not having this issue?

If you only have the 2 XP machines, first try rolling back the NIC driver to a previous version if available.

Are these machines on Active Directory?  If not, you can use a Group Policy tweak to tell XP not to wait for the network:

Start, Run, gpedit.msc
User Configuration -> Admistrative Templates -> Logon ->
Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon

Set to disabled.
Reboot.

well the on is a laptop the one is a desktop...

on the laptop i updated the drivers of the nic and then rolled back...

they are on a workgroup so i will try group policy...
with changing that the computer will not hang anymore but the network will still take 10 min to load?


thanks for your comments

cheers

if you are using your laptop/computers on doamin, check DNS setting, specially advance DNS settings.

they both on a work group:-)
and i have tried static IPs also same result

The network may still take a while but that Policy tweak should prevent it from holding up Windows.

you can  try this:

Go to  Start, Run, CMD to open a command prompt.
Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults: netsh winsock reset catalog
Reset TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ip reset reset.log

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825826 This MS KB will be helpful

you can try this,

GO to start> run> type msconfig>go to services tab and disable all and press ok.

after this restart your PC, it should work.

yeah i have tried that...still the same issue

I have seen this issue with firewall antivirus installed pcs .especially kaspersky.
normally you should be able to reduce this time from installing latest firewall antivirus what you are using. If you remove antivirus you will notice icon loads faster.

is there a way to resolve this without uninstalling it?
maybe disabling it?

if you disable AV, in the next boot again it will start. you can go to serices and disable AV service.

any comment s on my post Yolanie?

unfortunately not yet... i am not at the client so am unable to try so im just taking notes..

but i did check the logs and and didnt see any socket errors and the network connection is working so i didnt think of resetting the routing table... once i am at the client i will try all the solutions i gather today...

ok - let's hope you get is solved, and post results

unfortunately, Windows XP don't support "Automatic(Delayed)".
It supported by Vista/Win 7 or later version.

Please follow flubbster's comment to check "Verbose Logging" or you can use the BootVIS as I post before.

Also please check the Event Viewer(Control Panel, Administration Tools, Event Viewer), the event source is "Service Control Manager", and find if some error information exists.

Hi Guys

i found the issue to be windows UPdate to be the service that is hanging at start up...the user sent me a screen shot so i will check the updates