Re: Startup Weirdness

["Chuck Lewis" <chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's a good idea John ! I'll try it without the docking station.
Network resources really shouldn't be in contention as we are a small
company and I am one of the first in.

We haven't implemented anything like you describe yet but it sounds
interesting. What are they using to scan for installed software?

Thanks !

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of John Jones
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 10:49 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Startup Weirdness

My first guess is it's trying to connect to network resources and
they're
timing out.  Second guess is an issue with the docking station or what
the
laptop is expecting to see when docked.  You can plug in at work w/o the
dock to see if the dock makes any difference.

My suggestion is to use event viewer to track what loads at home & when
docked.  The difference should reveal what's taking so long.

BTW my employer has implemented a scan that detects all installed
software
on the PC.  It runs whenever we log in to the LAN so I get hit with it
at
the office but not at home.  It's slow and churns the disk for several
minutes but at least it runs as a background task so I can start working
while it does it's thing.