Workstation service hanging for 3 minutes on startup

[gte204i]

So my T42 was getting a little slow, and I decided to reformat today to "fix" it. Restored to factory contents, updated to SP2, blah, blah - and now my computer hangs for about 3 or 4 minutes on startup. Well, I finally tracked it down to the "Workstation" service. It takes Windows that amount of time to load this service. If I set it to "disabled" then it boots fine. Anybody got any ideas? I don't think I can go with leaving this one just disabled all the time.

[Leon]

Strange that you should be hanging on this service, but Yes, it is one that is essential for Network connectivity and should be set to Automatic.

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[gte204i]

It turns out that Wireless Zero Config. has to be set to Automatic or else Workstation hangs - at least on my computer. Anyways, I seem to recall people having problems with WZC, but I thought that was no longer an issue with the latest Access Connections software.

[Leon]

Thanks for the update! Yes, WZC does need to be set to Automatic post SP2, or you will have slow startup speeds.

[stevenc]

Hi, I'm a newly registered user and I came across this as I was trying to solve this exact problem.

My new R51 would just hang at startup and I was about to pull out my hair trying to figure it out! Thanks for preventing my premature baldness

[jcrkelly]

I too am a recent joinee of this list, and this problem is 100% what was ailing my X31.

Thank you so very much!!