I have a question about Things that slow down system bootup:

I've been working on a pc down the hall from me for the past couple of days, and I'm stumped. the background of this pc: It was upgraded from win 3.1 to win 95 800mhz processor, plenty of ram problem: whenever a user tries to log on to windows, it will take up to 4 minutes for the desktop to load. I originally thought this was a Lan related problem and removed all sorts of references to non existent paths from any windows startup files and the registry. Still slow. I defragged, scandisked, and freed up quite a bit of memory, still no luck. I at last booted up without the lan card and users could log into windows quickly as a normal 800mhz computer should (in seconds). When the lan card went back into the machine, slow logins again. So I checked the device drivers and checked for device conflicts (conflicting irq's, interrupts, ect...) and found none. As far as I can tell, everything should be working perfectly, but it surely isn't. So my question is this: Why the slow user logins to Windows?

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A common problem with Win95/98 PCs with Lan cards - all you have to do is give the card an IP address. Go to network from control panel and go to the TCP/IP properties of the Lan card - then click specify an IP and enter 192.168.1.X where X is any number other than 1, and enter 255.255.255.0 for the subnet mask. The reason why it takes so long is because Windows assigns it a new IP every time you boot. Good luck


On Thursday, July 18, 2002 at 9:19 am, AJM wrote:
>I have a question about Things
>that slow down system bootup:

>
>I've been working on a pc down the hall from me for the past couple of days, and
>I'm stumped.
>
>the background of this pc:
>It was upgraded from win 3.1 to win 95
>800mhz processor, plenty of ram
>
>problem:
>whenever a user tries to log on to windows, it will take up to 4 minutes for the
>desktop to load. I originally thought this was a Lan related problem and removed
>all sorts of references to non existent paths from any windows startup files and
>the registry. Still slow. I defragged, scandisked, and freed up quite a bit of memory,
>still no luck. I at last booted up without the lan card and users could log into
>windows quickly as a normal 800mhz computer should (in seconds). When the lan card
>went back into the machine, slow logins again. So I checked the device drivers and
>checked for device conflicts (conflicting irq's, interrupts, ect...) and found none.
>As far as I can tell, everything should be working perfectly, but it surely isn't.
>So my question is this: Why the slow user logins to Windows?
>
>

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All pc's on our company's lan use dchp to auto-assign ip addresses. None of our pc's besides this one has any problems with slow lan logins, and this one's the fastest pc in the building. Go figure... I did check to see if we had duped ip's or user id's somewhere, but there wasn't. I finally got frustrated and resorted to installing win98 on the machine by deltree'ing the win dir thru dos then installing 98. I believe it was something buried in the guts of the windows reg somewhere, lot of old references to our old server name... problems fixed now after the install.

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