workstation service slowing down login

colm_c

ok heres the deal, one of the guys in the office goes offsite a lot and plugs his laptop running xp pro into client networks all the time, recently his login screen has been slow. i.e. he enters his u/n and p/w and it takes at least 8-15 mins to load the desktop.

using msconfig I found out that this was down to the workstation service running at startup. disabling it at startup and the desktop loads up instantly, but to connect to our network shares here it needs to be started.

Any ideas why it would be so slow all of a sudden? or any settings I can change to make it load up quicker?

We have another 5 desktops here and they're all fine, no slowness at all.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Stephen

Has he got a firewall running on it? I would not go connecting my laptop to foreign networks without one. If he hasn't, its quite possible he's picked up some kind of virus - give it a full scan.

zAbbo

Check the event log, a full av/spyware scan won't do any harm either.

Check the properties of the service, and try and set it to restart if it hangs etc.

Event log might show up something though

colm_c

Yup firewall is running, and I'll give it a scan after work...

I'll check the event log too...

When I start the service manually it doesn't hang it just takes ages to start.

ressem

Are there many network (file & printer) shares, any using terminal services?

Does reducing the number of automatically mapped shares speed up the workstation restart times?