Thorax_the_Impaler
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Hello everybody and thank you to all who answer.
Recently I swapped HDD's between two machines for the purpose of more space for multiple OS's on the more powerful of the two. Thus far I have only installed Windows XP Professional, and I'm having a bit of an annoying issue. The computer boots to a useable desktop environment pretty quickly (as it is a fresh install), but network connections LAN and otherwise take about another minute before they become active and useable. When the machine had only an 80GB drive, everything was ready to go as soon as the desktop appeared. Now, it takes longer just for any network connections; anything done locally functions as it should when it should. I've noticed that the status bar icon for Windows Security Alerts is not present until the network becomes active, first telling me that there is no detected firewall (when it actually decides to show up), and then the firewall suddenly is recognized. Is there any way to make this not lag upon booting to the desktop? The new HDD in the computer is 250GB; and the previous one was 80GB, which I assume has something to do with this seeing as I have a drive of the same size/type with a backup installation of XP that has the same problem. Again, is there any way to fix this lag?
Recently I swapped HDD's between two machines for the purpose of more space for multiple OS's on the more powerful of the two. Thus far I have only installed Windows XP Professional, and I'm having a bit of an annoying issue. The computer boots to a useable desktop environment pretty quickly (as it is a fresh install), but network connections LAN and otherwise take about another minute before they become active and useable. When the machine had only an 80GB drive, everything was ready to go as soon as the desktop appeared. Now, it takes longer just for any network connections; anything done locally functions as it should when it should. I've noticed that the status bar icon for Windows Security Alerts is not present until the network becomes active, first telling me that there is no detected firewall (when it actually decides to show up), and then the firewall suddenly is recognized. Is there any way to make this not lag upon booting to the desktop? The new HDD in the computer is 250GB; and the previous one was 80GB, which I assume has something to do with this seeing as I have a drive of the same size/type with a backup installation of XP that has the same problem. Again, is there any way to fix this lag?
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