I have a user whos startup time on XP is slow. If his laptop is in it’s docking station(which is hooked up to my network) then it runs through the startup rather quickly. If he tries to bootup off the docking station, either in stand alone or hooked up to his home network he has a 1-2 minute lag after logging in.
He will log into the same domain profile, but it shouldn’t have that long of a lag to figure out that the domain is not accessable and to use the cached profile.
The user mentioned that the startup was fine until he went on a trip with several other execs and the CTO did something to get them all on that network. It sounded like Internet Connection Sharing, but he wasn’t real sure. His words were “They were all linked to Matt’s machine”. Since then he said his bootup time was slow in or out of network.
Last week I went in there did the obvious; msconfig, virus scan, spyware scan, regedit cleanup, scndsk, and defrag. I also went in and looked at his network connections. There were some unneccessary connections in there that I removed. Removing these seemed to help the in network bootup time. But still not the standalone or home network bootup times.
So how can I examine what’s going on at startup? I’ve browsed other slow startup threads and they seem to deal more with resource hogging programs. I can’t say that isn’t my problem, but I feel it’s more of a network issue.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Mike B.