Just want to say that the below suggestion worked for me too...my bootup time was 
normal, but when I tried to go online, it took forever. Deselected the below and 
now it works like a charm. Thanks..







On Friday, December 10, 2004 at 8:01 am, ziha79 wrote:

>I had a problem where my machine took about 3 to 5 minutes to boot up with XP.  
It 

>turned out that the problem occurred with a conflict in my network connections between 

>the broadband connection (created when installing software provided by my internet 

>provider) and a network connection associated with my ethernet card.

>

>I solved the problem by going into device manager, right clicked on the ethernet 

>card under network adapters and properties.  I then deselected the all the boxes 

>that were checked that contained TCP protocols etc.  Now rebooting takes less than 

>30 seconds!  

>

>I believe the problem developed following one of the XP updates.

>
 

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