On Startup, Network Connections hangs for 10 min, then fine

[adamhutton]

Help, I'm going mad over this problem.
- XP SP2, office 2003 w/ biz contact mgr, and McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8 is just about all that's running.

My machine will load windows, login fine. But it takes about 5 to 10 minutes before you can open network connections (The service just seems to hang). As soon as I login, windows says that Windows firewall is disabled (it isn't) and after about 10 minutes it goes away, it's enabled, and everything seems to work fine.

One thing, My machine will not browse a network. I can access other computers via \\192.168.1.4 but not by \\computername <-so something is awry with the master browser, I just can't figure out what.

If I hibernate, and start it back up, this problem doesn't happen at all.

-Anybody else have similar problems???

Thanks, Adam

 

[bcastner]

Start with the suggestion in the last sectio of this FAQ:

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=4017

Then consider:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;294756&Product=winxp

These steps require a reboot.

 

[adamhutton]

I found it is the McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0.0 that's screwing everything up.

Now i've just got to figure out what would be causing mcafee to cause such an initial slowdown. Is there any way to disable it's network scanning features one by one??

 

[bcastner]

Likely there is a provision for your local subnet, as a privileged zone.

Right click your LAN connection icon in the Status/Notification Bar. Left click "Status".

Now make the provisions for 192.168.xxx.xxx or whatever is require for your local LAN.