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"Greg M. Johnson" <gregj:-)565### [at] aol com> wrote in message
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> cause additonal problems. I also (stupidly) may have asked the PC
> company to install network capabilities (a lan card??) that I don't even
> need, and this may cause WinXP to spend lots of time fussing over it.
Just as a little side note (and this may be fixed under xp) - make sure that you
disable any unused network cards in the device manager. On booting, windows 95,
98 and 2000* spend a lot of time trying to find something useful to do with
network cards, even if they are not connected to anything.
The indicator that this is happening is a long pause in the boot-up not
accompanied by much in the way of disk activity.
* I haven't exactly experienced this with a card under 2000 - it was some AOL
protocol or other (installed AOL to help out a friend - had to delete the
protocol before boot-times went back to normal).
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