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Slow startup - Is Printing the Problem

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by does not compute!

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I am currently having this problem with out Win2K Pro laptops, when you start them up they are really slow especially if they are not on the network having used sniffer it appears that comunications with the N/W Printer is heavy when starting up.
Ihave considered creating local printers on each laptop and pinting them to the Jetdirect Printers but isthere a better way ?? ( we use hardware profiles to seperate In/OUT of office settings)

Anyone have any Ideas/suggestions Please

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by benyo

With Win 2K you shouldn't really need to setup different HW profiles as it is fairly intelligent. Check the CMOS to ensure bi-directional is not turned on if a local printer is connected (can slow things down). Also, if the HW profile is not setup properly you may find that the laptop is looking for things that aren't there (D/station, network card, etc). Put Win2K on one of the laptops as a frsh install and see how that compares. Build it alongside one of your standard builds and after each stage (extra software/hardware) comapre the speed. You may be suffering from conflicting software or drivers.

by maxwell edison

Certain PCI adapters (ones with the TI PCI 1225 controller chip) on a Windows 2000 computer causes a very long boot delay where 2000 looks like it hangs at booting. Actually, 2000 would pause for approximately 2 minutes 45 seconds while loading device drivers for the PCMCIA adapter before continuing to boot up. This in turn causes 2000 to take approximately 5 minutes to boot up to where you could finally log on.

To correct this issue, download the file found at this link:

http://www.practicallynetworked.com/support/slow_win2k_boot.htm

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