Restoring network connections - SLOW! 1

[Hammertime]

I have a Sony Vaio V505DP running XP Pro (SP1) that when booting take 3 - 4 minutes in 'restoring network connections'. The laptop is connected to a domain with DHCP. I have uninstalled File/Print sharing to no effect. There's nothing obvious in the Event Viewer although there is a error with 'Autoenrolement'.

Quite urgent!

Hammertime

 

[Guyute97]

I had a similar problem. I did a couple of things, the first was to remove all of the network connections and readd them. The second is if you have wireless, make sure that you set the metrix, don't use the auto 1. Set the LAN connection as 1 if that is what you usually use and then the wireless ones a higher number.

Also, if there are wireless connections you don't use set your system not to try and connect and not to search for new connections at start up.

--Guyute

 

[Hammertime]

Sounds good, will give it a go. A colleague mentioned changing the auto network neg speed from auto to 100 full duplex and now the laptop boots however there's no logon screen, just the mouse cursor! Tried Safe Mode, no affect. Trying to do a repair using XP CD!

 

[Hammertime]

Right got the laptop working again. What do you mean by the metrix and where can I change this? The Vaio does have a built-in wireless card however it's disabled.

Cheers,

Hammertime

 

[Guyute97]

For each of your connections you can go to the control panel->network connections->click on a connection.

Then in the new window click on TCP/IP and then the propeties button. From there click the advanced button. At the bottom with be the Interface Metric. Most likely Automatic Metric will be checked which may be fine.

What I found is that I was switching randomly between my LAN connection and the wireless. So, I unchecked the box, for my office wireless set it to 10. Then set it to 11 for my home and for my LAN connection set it to 1.

1 receives the highest priority while 11 recieves the lowest.

Glad to hear you got it working again.

--Guyute

 

[Hammertime]

Ok that makes sense. Have emailed the user to arrange another visit as he is willing to live with the problem however that would be defeatest!

Have a look at thread779-956242

Going to give this a try as well

Cheers,

Hammertime

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[Hammertime]

Thread779-956242 had no effect however I changed the metrix (LAN = 1 WLAN = 11 - disabled) and rebooted it 5 times and it seems to boot very quickly! Tried shutting down/starting up and still worked!

Hopefully this is fixed (awaiting for feedback from user)

Thanks for your help Guyute!

Cheers,

Hammertime

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