re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup'
Saturday, June 29, 2002 at 9:04 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by trickster
(1 messages posted)
On Wednesday, June 26, 2002 at 4:36 am, zacinjapan wrote:
>I have a question about Things
>that slow down system bootup:
>
>When I bootup my system, it hangs for about 2 minutes while it 'searches for network
>connections.' This happens when I bootup at home, but not when I am at work on
my
>work's network.
>
>I am running Win2000 on my laptop. I run the computer at home as a standalone,
and
>take it to work and connect to the network through a 10/100 LAN card using the cabling
>that looks very similar to telephone cable.
>
>At home, I have ADSL and connect to that in the same way that I connect to the network
>- through the LAN card with phone-type cable.
>
>I never had this problem until I got ADSL.
>
>Can anyone offer a solution to this problem?
>
>
Check event viewer (Computer Management-Event Viewer) for a message "The DNS Client
Service hung on starting" or similar. If this is the case disable the service and
it will most likely stop looking for non-existant network connections. This did the
trick for me.
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