Re: Tray icon boot order - network icon taking ages to initialise

Andre Willey wrote:
Any suggestions as to how to reconfigure the order that tray icons load under Windows XP Home? I've just built a new high-spec PC which is otherwise working beautifully, but one oddity is that the network/internet connection takes ages to appear in the system tray (as much as a minute after the other icons). My previous PC and my laptopp both get internet connectivity up and running quite early in the boot sequence (all of them are connected to the same ethernet hub, which in turn has the cable modem attached). However, on my new machine, several tray applications (e.g. windows messanger) just sit around trying to connect until the network icon finally appears - one even times out and gives up on the net, and I have to manually connect it afterwards.

Any thoughts on how to speed this up?

Andre

It isn't the 'order' of things as XP will try to get an internet connection early just like the others but something is delaying it, probably causing it to wait for a timeout.

Who is it supposed to get it's IP address from?

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