After I login to Vista, it is unresponsive for 5-10 minutes. Throughout
this time the service "lanmanserver" is "starting up". Does anyone know how
to make this required service start more quickly?

I may be on the wrong path all-together. Are there other reasons for the
system to hang for serveral minutes after login? The only program I seem to
be able to run is firefox. IE, MSN messenger, etc., don't run for several
minutes until all the services have started. Thanks!

-Drew

"drew" wrote:

After I login to Vista, it is unresponsive for 5-10 minutes. Throughout
this time the service "lanmanserver" is "starting up". Does anyone know how
to make this required service start more quickly?

I don't have this issue.

I am experiencing the same problem for the past few days. Only my system
hangs for about 15 minutes. The Task Manager says that LanManServer is
starting. Also the LAN/Internet Icon on the tool bar has a red X. I can
get onto the Internet with Internet Explorer and some other applications
that needs access to the Internet but Windows Mail only pops up a blue
rectangle in the middle of the screen. The red X disappears from the
LAN/Internet connection icon in the tool bar and is replaced by the blue
dot and the lanmanserver status in the Task Manager goes from starting
up to run. After that all applications that need access to the Internet
are functional.

Do you have VoIP on your system and/or are you using a Linksys router?
LanManServer may be a Linksys application or a Microsoft application
used by Linksys. I am investigating that possibility. Have you
downloaded any Vista updates recently?


drew;68315 Wrote:
After I login to Vista, it is unresponsive for 5-10 minutes. Throughout
this time the service "lanmanserver" is "starting up". Does anyone know
how
to make this required service start more quickly?

I may be on the wrong path all-together. Are there other reasons for
the
system to hang for serveral minutes after login? The only program I
seem to
be able to run is firefox. IE, MSN messenger, etc., don't run for
several
minutes until all the services have started. Thanks!

-Drew


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I found the fix for my slow booting Vista and hanging LanmanServer in
this blog post.
I tried it and it worked like a charm. Windows Vista boots in 10
seconds now.
'Older Geeks Hacks & Fixes » Blog Archive » Vista starts/boots very
slowly. May take 10-30 minutes to load.'
(http://oldergeeks.com/blog/2009/01/2...nutes-to-load/)



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hcrgeek

Did not work for me at all, no difference for the start-up
I cut the shut down time to 10 secs. before I applied the suggested
registry hack. I also disabled a number of not need services, cancelled the
infamous memory hog sidebar, disabled a number of start-up programs. The
start-up time came down somewhat but still is over the suggested 10 -30
secs. So what is the purpose of this registry hack?

MKR

"hcrgeek" wrote in message
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I found the fix for my slow booting Vista and hanging LanmanServer in
this blog post.
I tried it and it worked like a charm. Windows Vista boots in 10
seconds now.
'Older Geeks Hacks & Fixes » Blog Archive » Vista starts/boots very
slowly. May take 10-30 minutes to load.'
(http://oldergeeks.com/blog/2009/01/2...nutes-to-load/)



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hcrgeek

Drew, I have the same problem. I think I have it narrowed down to my
external harddrives (WD 1 Terabyte). Once I unplug them, my computer
boots right up. When they are plugged in, takes a few minutes to boot
and I get the lanman server hang message. Sparky


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sprakties

I recently fixed my 20 minute delay on start up where LanmaServer hung
in starting mode by making some dependency changes in the Registry.
Services starting up out of proper order I believe is the cause of this
problem. In the MS Knowledge Base earlier operating systems users
reported that LanmanServer hangs occurred with print spooler starting up
out of sequence. I reported my specific fix in another string at this
site. In my case the problem was related to a WorkStation service.


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