We're a 2 person office on a little network.



My partner's Vista laptop just started to pause for about 20 secs after she
types in her password and hits enter to logon... after a period of no use.

What might cause this?

jeff

does this occur when she is not connected to the network?

What kind of network--domain or workgroup--domain seems overkill, but I
thought I would ask



"Jeff Ingman" <JeffIngman@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:600AD008-F732-4FCB-92E4-1B4CA707448C@xxxxxx

> We're a 2 person office on a little network.
>
> My partner's Vista laptop just started to pause for about 20 secs after
> she
> types in her password and hits enter to logon... after a period of no use.
>
> What might cause this?
>
> jeff

gerry...

I haven't tested to see if the delay occurs if she is not connected to the
network... but could if you suspect the network connection might be the issue.

The network is a home workgroup.

"gerryf" wrote:

> does this occur when she is not connected to the network?
>
> What kind of network--domain or workgroup--domain seems overkill, but I
> thought I would ask
>
>
>
> "Jeff Ingman" <JeffIngman@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:600AD008-F732-4FCB-92E4-1B4CA707448C@xxxxxx

> > We're a 2 person office on a little network.
> >
> > My partner's Vista laptop just started to pause for about 20 secs after
> > she
> > types in her password and hits enter to logon... after a period of no use.
> >
> > What might cause this?
> >
> > jeff

>

This is what I think may be happening--when she logs on, VISTA is attempting
to reconnect mapped drives or it is looking for network shares (folders,
maybe printers)

Did she map a drive during a previous session? Connect to a shared printer?

Perhaps a script to reconnect the drive/printer at startup rather than
having Windows search might be faster.



"Jeff Ingman" <JeffIngman@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:73FB3EFD-837D-41EE-944B-CB329887232F@xxxxxx

> gerry...
>
> I haven't tested to see if the delay occurs if she is not connected to the
> network... but could if you suspect the network connection might be the
> issue.
>
> The network is a home workgroup.
>
> "gerryf" wrote:
>

>> does this occur when she is not connected to the network?
>>
>> What kind of network--domain or workgroup--domain seems overkill, but I
>> thought I would ask
>>
>>
>>
>> "Jeff Ingman" <JeffIngman@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:600AD008-F732-4FCB-92E4-1B4CA707448C@xxxxxx

>> > We're a 2 person office on a little network.
>> >
>> > My partner's Vista laptop just started to pause for about 20 secs after
>> > she
>> > types in her password and hits enter to logon... after a period of no
>> > use.
>> >
>> > What might cause this?
>> >
>> > jeff

>>

Gerry...

Thanks... I think you're on the right track. I've noticed our mapped drives
have changed behavior recently and I may be able to solve the problem simply
by eliminating the mapped drives or remapping them.

I would not know who to write a script to connect them... so I hope this
isn't a necessary step to solve the issue.

I'll work on this and post the good or bad news here tomorrow.

"gerryf" wrote:

> This is what I think may be happening--when she logs on, VISTA is attempting
> to reconnect mapped drives or it is looking for network shares (folders,
> maybe printers)
>
> Did she map a drive during a previous session? Connect to a shared printer?
>
> Perhaps a script to reconnect the drive/printer at startup rather than
> having Windows search might be faster.
>
>
>
> "Jeff Ingman" <JeffIngman@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:73FB3EFD-837D-41EE-944B-CB329887232F@xxxxxx

> > gerry...
> >
> > I haven't tested to see if the delay occurs if she is not connected to the
> > network... but could if you suspect the network connection might be the
> > issue.
> >
> > The network is a home workgroup.
> >
> > "gerryf" wrote:
> >

> >> does this occur when she is not connected to the network?
> >>
> >> What kind of network--domain or workgroup--domain seems overkill, but I
> >> thought I would ask
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "Jeff Ingman" <JeffIngman@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:600AD008-F732-4FCB-92E4-1B4CA707448C@xxxxxx
> >> > We're a 2 person office on a little network.
> >> >
> >> > My partner's Vista laptop just started to pause for about 20 secs after
> >> > she
> >> > types in her password and hits enter to logon... after a period of no
> >> > use.
> >> >
> >> > What might cause this?
> >> >
> >> > jeff
> >>