XP takes extraordiarily long to show contents of Network Neighborhood

XP has been working perfectly for me for several years.

Recently, it developed two problems.

1. It takes extremely long to shut down. When I do a shutdown
request, the icons are wiped from the screen, and the screen goes
solid blue (my normal background color).
After about 10 minutes, I get the message "closing network
connections". After another 5 minutes, I get "saving your settings".
5 minutes later, it finally shuts down.

I have shut down all unnessary services, and removed everything from
startups. What next? Is there some log file that would show me what
is taking all the time?

2. I use dymamic IP and have the DHCP IP set to the IP of the
router.
All worked well until yesterday. Now, when I click on Network
Neighborhood I get a quick hourglass. then a regular cursor. It takes
about 2 minutes for the normal Network Neighborhood contents to
appear. I reset the router. That still didn't work.
Mapped drives show their contents instantly as before.

As far as I know, no new programs have been loaded recently.
Spyware and virus scans come up clean.

What should I try next?

TIA

 

Systems restore.


|
| XP has been working perfectly for me for several years.
|
| Recently, it developed two problems.
|
| 1. It takes extremely long to shut down. When I do a shutdown
| request, the icons are wiped from the screen, and the screen goes
| solid blue (my normal background color).
| After about 10 minutes, I get the message "closing network
| connections". After another 5 minutes, I get "saving your settings".
| 5 minutes later, it finally shuts down.
|
| I have shut down all unnessary services, and removed everything from
| startups. What next? Is there some log file that would show me what
| is taking all the time?
|
| 2. I use dymamic IP and have the DHCP IP set to the IP of the
| router.
| All worked well until yesterday. Now, when I click on Network
| Neighborhood I get a quick hourglass. then a regular cursor. It takes
| about 2 minutes for the normal Network Neighborhood contents to
| appear. I reset the router. That still didn't work.
| Mapped drives show their contents instantly as before.
|
| As far as I know, no new programs have been loaded recently.
| Spyware and virus scans come up clean.
|
| What should I try next?
|
| TIA

 

Already tried System Restore.

It should be noted that other computers on the network do NOT have
the same issues.

The long shutdown problem started several weeks ago. The impossibly
long browsing time started happening yesterday.

 

try going into Admin tools, event viewer, see if there are any clues there
to help you..J

 

No failures, not even any warnings.

Is there a log file generator that will create something
similar to the 'boot.log' file that will show me when
applications and services are requested to stop,
and when they actually DO stop?

TIA

 

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:23:12 -0700, LowlyEngineer

|>
|>No failures, not even any warnings.
|>
|>Is there a log file generator that will create something
|>similar to the 'boot.log' file that will show me when
|>applications and services are requested to stop,
|>and when they actually DO stop?

Ya, the event viewer you need to audit events first
http://www.techexams.net/technotes/xp/auditing.shtml

|>On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 18:09:29 GMT, "old john"
|>
|>>try going into Admin tools, event viewer, see if there are any clues there
|>>to help you..J
|>>
|>>|>>>
|>>> XP has been working perfectly for me for several years.
|>>>
|>>> Recently, it developed two problems.
|>>>
|>>> 1. It takes extremely long to shut down. When I do a shutdown
|>>> request, the icons are wiped from the screen, and the screen goes
|>>> solid blue (my normal background color).
|>>> After about 10 minutes, I get the message "closing network
|>>> connections". After another 5 minutes, I get "saving your settings".
|>>> 5 minutes later, it finally shuts down.
|>>>
|>>> I have shut down all unnessary services, and removed everything from
|>>> startups. What next? Is there some log file that would show me what
|>>> is taking all the time?
|>>>
|>>> 2. I use dymamic IP and have the DHCP IP set to the IP of the
|>>> router.
|>>> All worked well until yesterday. Now, when I click on Network
|>>> Neighborhood I get a quick hourglass. then a regular cursor. It takes
|>>> about 2 minutes for the normal Network Neighborhood contents to
|>>> appear. I reset the router. That still didn't work.
|>>> Mapped drives show their contents instantly as before.
|>>>
|>>> As far as I know, no new programs have been loaded recently.
|>>> Spyware and virus scans come up clean.
|>>>
|>>> What should I try next?
|>>>
|>>> TIA
|>>

 

Thanks! I think this is just what I need

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