I have an HP laptop that takes forever to load when it is connected to
my docking station at work. It boots quickly to the login screen but
once I enter my password it takes almost 5 minutes to get to the
desktop. I could understand if it was the other way around and the
laptop was looking for a network connection when I was away from my
work domain but when I take laptop off the docking station and boot,
it boots normally and does not take long to load the desktop. I have
searched Event Viewer but have been unable to find anything that
indicates any problems or suggests what the problem might be. Any
ideas? Thanks.

Re: Laptop takes forever to load on docking station by JOHN

JOHN
Fri May 09 14:44:35 PDT 2008

Check your, "prefetch folder", and look to see what is loading at startup,
and then edit out the items that you don't use regularly.

Cheers!

"CAskier" <emblack@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have an HP laptop that takes forever to load when it is connected to
> my docking station at work. It boots quickly to the login screen but
> once I enter my password it takes almost 5 minutes to get to the
> desktop. I could understand if it was the other way around and the
> laptop was looking for a network connection when I was away from my
> work domain but when I take laptop off the docking station and boot,
> it boots normally and does not take long to load the desktop. I have
> searched Event Viewer but have been unable to find anything that
> indicates any problems or suggests what the problem might be. Any
> ideas? Thanks.



Re: Laptop takes forever to load on docking station by PD43

PD43
Fri May 09 14:53:34 PDT 2008

"JOHN CARR" <carrj142@verizon.net> wrote:

>Check your, "prefetch folder", and look to see what is loading at startup,
>and then edit out the items that you don't use regularly.

Nice guess.

Bad one too.