Slow applications startup ONLY when connecting my PC on the Internet at home "sarah" <sarah.mencer[ at ]googlemail.com> 14.07.2006 23:52:53 Hello Everyone, I have an XP SP2 (fully patched) laptop that I use at home and at work. When at work it is connected to the LAN via 100 MEG ethernet. When at home I connect it via an NTL 1MB broadband internet connection. When I use my computer at home and unlike at work, all applications (launched either from the quick launch or from desktop or from the Start menu) take up to 2 minutes to open. After this initial delay everything returns to normal. I'm not sure what is causing this or what the computer is doing when it occurs. Checking Task Manager gives no clues, no excessive memory or processor use and most of the time while they are opening is spent on System Idle Process. These problems disappear when I disconnect my computer from the internet. It has got to the stage that if I want to open a new application it is quicker to remove the cable, let the application open at normal speed and then reconnect and negotiate a new DHCP address which sometime takes ages to be completed! I check my system every day for any spyware or virus using ad-aware, spybot, I also run norton anti-virus 2005 everyday. All the above tools report my system is free from spyware and virus. I also check my internet security using norton's online security check. It reports my system is secure. I have just removed the NTL netguard, but with no improvement Any help please Many thanks

Re: Slow applications startup ONLY when connecting my PC on the Internet at home administrator[ at ]spam.yellowhead.com (John Coutts) 15.07.2006 01:31:52 In article <1152921173.512625.12710[ at ]35g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, sarah.mencer[ at ]googlemail.com says... [Quoted Text] > >Hello Everyone, > >I have an XP SP2 (fully patched) laptop that I use at home and at work. >When at work it is connected to the LAN via 100 MEG ethernet. When at >home I connect it via an NTL 1MB broadband internet connection. > >When I use my computer at home and unlike at work, all applications >(launched either from the quick launch or from desktop or from the >Start menu) take up to 2 minutes to open. After this initial delay >everything returns to normal. > >I'm not sure what is causing this or what the computer is doing when it >occurs. Checking Task Manager gives no clues, no excessive memory or >processor use and most of the time while they are opening is spent on >System Idle Process. >These problems disappear when I disconnect my computer from the >internet. It has got to the stage that if I want to open a new >application it is quicker to remove the cable, let the application >open at normal speed and then reconnect and negotiate a new DHCP >address which sometime takes ages to be completed! > >I check my system every day for any spyware or virus using ad-aware, >spybot, >I also run norton anti-virus 2005 everyday. All the above tools report >my system is free from spyware and virus. I also check my internet >security using norton's online security check. It reports my system is >secure. > >I have just removed the NTL netguard, but with no improvement > >Any help please > >Many thanks ************** REPLY SEPARATER **************** Because you connect to your Local Area Network at work via the same Ethernet card that you connect to the Internet at home, your computer does not immediately know that they are not one of the same. It is obvious that your computer is searching for some resource that it previously had access to at work. XP has a nasty habit of trying to remember all the various connections that you have made since day one. Try clearing out all the connections (including printers) in your network neighborhood before connecting to the Internet. J.A> Coutts

Re: Slow applications startup ONLY when connecting my PC on the Internet at home "Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" <admin[ at ]nospam.WFTX.US> 15.07.2006 04:36:33 sarah wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hello Everyone, > > I have an XP SP2 (fully patched) laptop that I use at home and at > work. When at work it is connected to the LAN via 100 MEG ethernet. > When at home I connect it via an NTL 1MB broadband internet > connection. > > When I use my computer at home and unlike at work, all applications > (launched either from the quick launch or from desktop or from the > Start menu) take up to 2 minutes to open. After this initial delay > everything returns to normal. > > I'm not sure what is causing this or what the computer is doing when > it occurs. Checking Task Manager gives no clues, no excessive memory > or processor use and most of the time while they are opening is spent > on System Idle Process. > These problems disappear when I disconnect my computer from the > internet. It has got to the stage that if I want to open a new > application it is quicker to remove the cable, let the application > open at normal speed and then reconnect and negotiate a new DHCP > address which sometime takes ages to be completed! > > I check my system every day for any spyware or virus using ad-aware, > spybot, > I also run norton anti-virus 2005 everyday. All the above tools report > my system is free from spyware and virus. I also check my internet > security using norton's online security check. It reports my system is > secure. I'm going to take a SWAG and assume that your laptop is a member of an Active Directory domain at work, and you are using your domain account at home. This is the exact behavior you will get when you connect to a network and it starts looking for its Domain Controller. You can work around this by creating a local machine account to use when you are at home and give that account permissions to access the Documents in your Domain Profile. -- Best regards, Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] Hope This Helps =================================== When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so that others may learn and benefit from your issue, to respond directly to me remove the nospam. from my email address. =================================== http://www.lonestaramerica.com/ http://support.wftx.us/ https://secure.lsaol.com/ =================================== Use Outlook Express?... Get OE_Quotefix: It will strip signature out and more http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ =================================== Keep a back up of your OE settings and folders with OEBackup: http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx ===================================

Re: Slow applications startup ONLY when connecting my PC on the Internet at home "sarah" <sarah.mencer[ at ]googlemail.com> 15.07.2006 10:20:43 Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] wrote: [Quoted Text] > sarah wrote: > > I'm going to take a SWAG and assume that your laptop is a member of an > Active Directory domain at work, and you are using your domain account at > home. This is the exact behavior you will get when you connect to a network > and it starts looking for its Domain Controller. You can work around this by > creating a local machine account to use when you are at home and give that > account permissions to access the Documents in your Domain Profile. > I am logging on a local machine account when using my laptop [ at ] home

Re: Slow applications startup ONLY when connecting my PC on the Internet at home "Kurt" <lorentzenkurt[ at ]nospam.hotmail.com> 18.07.2006 04:27:33 I would still suspect that something like a mapped drive being looked for. Those delays are almost always because the computer is waiting for some expected resource to time-out. Similar to trying to open "My Computer" with an unreadable CD in the drive. It also could be set up to use a proxy server at work, although that timeout is not usually as long. ...kurt "sarah" <sarah.mencer[ at ]googlemail.com> wrote in message news:1152958843.163211.31720[ at ]75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... [Quoted Text] > > Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] wrote: >> sarah wrote: >> >> I'm going to take a SWAG and assume that your laptop is a member of an >> Active Directory domain at work, and you are using your domain account at >> home. This is the exact behavior you will get when you connect to a >> network >> and it starts looking for its Domain Controller. You can work around this >> by >> creating a local machine account to use when you are at home and give >> that >> account permissions to access the Documents in your Domain Profile. >> > > I am logging on a local machine account when using my laptop [ at ] home >