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?

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re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' Saturday, June 29, 2002 at 9:04 am 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' Saturday, August 24, 2002 at 8:50 pm Posted by something (1 messages posted) try creating a new hardware profile for your connetion at home. 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? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' Saturday, December 28, 2002 at 4:52 pm Posted by Reg Salter (1 messages posted) Could be you have a drive or even a folder on the office server mapped in on your laptop. When running it as a standalone at home, the nominated drive or folder cannot be found- for obvious reasons. Try deleting such mappings if they exist and then reboot- Hope it helps Reg 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? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' Saturday, July 19, 2003 at 6:16 am Posted by John (1 messages posted) "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 is my problem too. How do you disable the service? What service exactly? On Saturday, June 29, 2002 at 9:04 am, trickster wrote: > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Things that slow down system bootup' Sunday, October 2, 2005 at 10:38 am Posted by AlphaOmega (1 messages posted) The most probable explanation is that your network connection to your ADSL modem does not specify the IP to connect to. Every time you boot up, your computer tries to establish the connection, and queries the modem for the IP address. To solve this problem you can specify the IP address manually. Right-click 'My Computer' and click 'Manage'. In the left pane, expand the 'Event Viewer' and click 'System'. In the right pane, scroll down until you see a warning (yellow with exclamation) whose source is 'Dhcp'. Double click it and you will see the event description as: "Your computer has automatically configured the IP address for the Network Card with network address XXXXXXXXXXXX. The IP address being used is ###.###.##.##." The hashes denote your modem's IP. Copy it somewhere. In Control Panel, open 'Network Connection', right-click your LAN connection and select properties. Click 'Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)' and click 'Properties'. Select the 'Use the following IP address:' option and enter the IP you had copied earlier in the 'IP address' field. Enter the same in the 'Preferred DNS server:'. Click 'OK' and reboot. I had the exact same problem as you do, and doing this solved it. Hope it helps 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? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum