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from: Herbert Rosenau
date: 2006-08-12 02:12:10
subject: Re: Network starts 25% - 50% of the time

Phil Astley schrieb:
> This started happening some time ago when I was using a flaky disk. I 
> didn't have time to do a full reinstall, so I suspect a file might have 
> been corrupted - but a compare (using PM directory enforcer to show 
> differences between the directories)) of the main networking directories 
> with my working laptop doesn't show anything.
> 
> What happens is that it can take several reboots to get a clean boot. 
> Other times the "start file & print client" program
loads - it's in the 
> startup folder - but the line of dots while its starting the first part 
> (requester from memory) just goes and goes and goes.

A flaky network card will be a cause.

> Closing that window and manually starting doesn't work. Something 
> somewhere is not loading properly - but even pressing Alt-f2 on boot 
> doesn't show me anything useful - no problems.
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions I'd really appreciate them.

When have you last cleaned the os2*.ini?

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