When my system finally boots into Windows 2000 Pro and begins to launch all the applications into the Status Area, to the right of the Taskbar, eventually there is a pause. No other applications are loaded and attempting to open file folders is paused. After about 20 secs the Network Icon appears in the Status Area and the system returns to normal. Its as if Windows is trying to make an unusual network connection which possibly times out after 20 secs ?! I'm connecting thru a NIC card to a Cable Modem. Apps launched on startup: Norton Antivirus 2003, Popup SMASHER.

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1) Did you already check eventviewer to see if there's an error somewhere? 2) Open Task Manager and see which service is using the cpu. Hope this gets you on the way.

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Ok the event logger says: Event Type: Warning Event Source: Dhcp Event Category: None Event ID: 1003 Date: 01/29/2004 Time: 2:47:59 PM User: N/A Computer: TOAST Description: Your computer was not able to renew its address from the network (from the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address 000Dxxxxx. The following error occured: The semaphore timeout period has expired. . Your computer will continue to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP) server. Data: 0000: 79 00 00 00 y...


On Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 6:42 am, quip wrote:
>1) Did you already check eventviewer to see if there's an error somewhere?
>2) Open Task Manager and see which service is using the cpu.
>
>Hope this gets you on the way.

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