Displaying desktop after unlock delayed 60 sec

[Tobias Mattsson]

When I unlock my computer by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL and type
in my users password (after having it locked by pressing
CTRL-ALT-DEL and clicking "Lock Workstation"), I experience
a delay of 60 seconds (every time).
During the delay I can move the mouse pointer, but I dont
see any taskbar or icons on my empty desktop. There are no
signs of disk or network activity (no blinking LEDS). After
this delay the desktop immediately becomes "normal" and
fully operative.
The computer is a Compaq Evo N610c laptop with intel P4
2GHz and 512 MB RAM. Operating system is WinXP pro.

I have tried to locate the source of this problem by
stopping unneccesary services, disabling the network (and
unmapping all network drives), and finally killing almost
all processes one by one (including ATI driver utilites,
antivirus, novell netware processes, compaq specific
processes and more. But nothing seems to help.

This problem does not occur during initial login, only
after unlocking the computer as described above.

Please help me if you can.
Regards,
Tobias

[Dragon]

check your sysconfig file in case something in there is delaying the
start-up, it could be looking for a program to run that might be corrupt or
even gone

good luck

Dave

"Tobias Mattsson" > wrote in message
...
> When I unlock my computer by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL and type
> in my users password (after having it locked by pressing
> CTRL-ALT-DEL and clicking "Lock Workstation"), I experience
> a delay of 60 seconds (every time).
> During the delay I can move the mouse pointer, but I dont
> see any taskbar or icons on my empty desktop. There are no
> signs of disk or network activity (no blinking LEDS). After
> this delay the desktop immediately becomes "normal" and
> fully operative.
> The computer is a Compaq Evo N610c laptop with intel P4
> 2GHz and 512 MB RAM. Operating system is WinXP pro.
>
> I have tried to locate the source of this problem by
> stopping unneccesary services, disabling the network (and
> unmapping all network drives), and finally killing almost
> all processes one by one (including ATI driver utilites,
> antivirus, novell netware processes, compaq specific
> processes and more. But nothing seems to help.
>
> This problem does not occur during initial login, only
> after unlocking the computer as described above.
>
> Please help me if you can.
> Regards,
> Tobias