Windows 7: Network slow to initialize on startup, slow system

Hello. I started having the same issue late last week on my laptop. I thought it was hardware related but finally googled on the issue when nothing else worked and found this topic.

As someone else mentioned, I also had a Buffalo NAS that was on my home office network but the NAS had been taken off the network at about the same time. The actual offending service is a service related to my file backups. It was stuck on STARTING. So I did the AUTOMATIC(DELAYED) and all is well.



Thanks so much for pointing me in the right direction.

On mine I was unable to start the services.msc control panel but was able to bring up the task manager using <ctrl> <alt> <Dlt>, The service that was creating delays (up to 2 minutes) was the HP CUE discovery Service.

I have to say that 10 years ago HP product was top of the pyramid, the software was quality and updated.....If you search for problems with hpqddsvc you'll find a litany of issues...all of which points to the reality that HP is very much a shadow of its former self.

Seting the hpqddsvc to manual start meant the boot completed and when ever I look the service is actually running so something else starts it, but at a time and in a way that doesnt stop everything else from completing the boot

Andy

Just wanted to say this also worked for me! It seems that the program that could be causing it is completely random for everyone. For me, it was the ASUS Fan Control program. I have no idea why that would have anything to do with the network, but my internet connection was freezing until that program was fully started. Changing it to delayed fix the problem immediately!