Originally Posted by
Talonman
I have the same issue. Apon any re-boot, after the desktop appears, the break is in hard for 60 seconds or so. My connection to road runner keeps the red X even though the modem is fully ready. No program will launch. I wait it out and the system seemes to give up on something it wanted to do bad. All 4 cores jump to action, disk drive begins to access, modem connection kicks in too. The system returnes to it's speedy normal self.
I have looked in Device Manager, but find nothing that is !'ed.
I know the system is trying to do something for the first 60 seconds when the desktop appears, that runs with such a high priority, it stops all other system activity. Only when Vista gives up on the idea (what-ever it is) does the system allow any programs to launch.
I have just been waiting it out on bootups, and scratching my head mostly.