XP running slow

[GeordieSteve]

This has been a problem for a while now. When starting my machine (and a few others on our LAN), XP seems to take ages while loading the computer settings. This morning it took about 20 minutes. Someone pointed out this may be a DNS problem (2003 SBS server) but it looks fine and the event logs are clean as a whistle. Network traffic seems to hit a maximum of 10% usage at any one time. Also if you leave the PC to idle for any length of time it drags it's heels for a while. The PC's aren't GREAT spec but still, a 2.8 processor and 256 RAM should be more than capable. Bear in mind my PC is only used for email, internet and remote connectivity and anti-virus and anti-spyware are also both up to date.

Thanks :)

[vehelpfulguy]

Not an expert in this area, but it sounds a netowork problem.

My guess is your local PC is looking for something on the LAN it cannot find, maybe a LAN resource or shared resource. 

Could it be that at the end of each day you have added some remote connections that are not there in the morning ?.

In the morning Windows is looking for these remote connections and cannot find them.

Too be honest you probably need to ask on a more specialized forum than this. Try a microsoft forum such as microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs

[GeordieSteve]

The only remote connectivity I use it RDP to one server (which is always there). Just noticed a few cached network connections in My Network Places which may not help... just deleted those. Thanks for your help mate :)