Network slow to initalize?? PC hangs..

So its a fresh load on the machine, latest Intel 3945 wifi drivers. Hard drive is good without any bad sectors.

When I boot into windows everything but the network comes up and after a minute or so the 2 network icons pop up at the bottom than the PC is usable. Anything I click on prior to those icons coming up waits untill they come up to pop up.

Had avast installed, thought maybe it was the issue so its gone now, still the same.


Ive seen this on other machines rarely in the past but have no clue what causes it. Throw me some ideas to checkout to solve this. I did run systernals autorun.exe and removed anything that was messed up and missing on there.

Thanks in advance everyone!

Its not a hard lock. I can goto start, click on chrome, click on other stuff. But untill the network icons show at the bottom nothing will open. Once the network icons come up what I clicked on previously opens without issue.

Get CCleaner and scrub down that baby, registry and all; some AVs love to leave a lot of junk behind.

MilesAhead said:

I would look in Device Manager. Right click on the network device, click properties. Look for a check mark in "allow this device to be turned off to save power" or words to that effect. If checked, uncheck it.

For any of those having issues in the future. The above solved it for me and I would have never thought to check this. Thanks!