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With some of our Windows XP Machines we have experienced Novell taking a long time to load the network drives after login. &nbsp;This keeps explorer.exe from starting. &nbsp;We can open up task manager and manually start explorer.exe and it loads fast after that. &nbsp;If we login to workstation only and log in to novell after the desktop loads we dont have the lag issue before the drives load.
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With some of our Windows XP Machines we have experienced Novell taking a long time to load the network drives after login.  This keeps explorer.exe from starting.  We can open up task manager and manually start explorer.exe and it loads fast after that.  If we login to workstation only and log in to novell after the desktop loads we dont have the lag issue before the drives load.

Novell Login Lag

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