Vista - 'Connect ot network' slow to appear

Hi

Can anybody tell me why it takes 3 minutes (on a dual core laptop) for
'Connect to a network' appear? I have around 40 VPN connections configured,
which I believe to be the cause of the slowdown. When creating a network
connection on a clean Vista installation, the 'Connect to a network' appears
quickly (obviously).

Regards
sparky_b

I to had this problem to it seemed be a problem after the 5th or 6th connection was added. With 40 VPN connections I guess like me you work in IT support. Anyway this (which I found elsewhere on the web) seems to have fixed it for me even before I did the reboot at the end.

>>Right click "Computer" >>Click "Manage"
>>Under the "System Tools" section, Double click "Local Users and Groups" >>Click "Groups"
>>Right click "Administrators"
>>Click "Add to group..."
>>Click "Add"
>>Click "Advanced"
>>Click "Find Now"
>>Double click "Local Service"
>>Click "Ok"
>>"NT Authority\Local Service" should show up in the list now
>>Click "Ok" >>Close Computer Management and reboot.

Matt

http://www.purplepc.co.uk

"Opinion - knowledge without the hindrance of silly facts."

That didn't help me. I have about 50 connections I use for dialin out from work. Under XP the rasphone.pbk works fine but I think VISTA has a bug. If I rename the rasphone.pbk then everything in vista works OK. But as long as there is 50-60 entries in the rasphone.pbk, Vista takes a very long time to open network connects/properties or dialups PERIOD. Does anyone have insight to a Microsoft FIX for the VISTA rasphone??