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by akasbury

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I am running Windows XP Professional with all current updates, and all current drivers. When Windows starts up and loads the desktop, it takes anywhere from 1 to 5 minutes before the NIC seems to start. It's like it isn't even there. Even trying to open the Network Connections control panel does nothing but lock up the Start Menu. I have experienced this problem with a laptop computer also, using a modem. Desktop is home built, laptop is IBM iSeries.

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by ghimpe--

Are you using Mapped drives?? If so the computer might try to access those remote computers and so lagging.

Also disable DHCP and manualy configure IPs.

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