Laptop Very Slow When out of My Office Network (Help Me Please)

12 Dec 2006 9:02 PM

Cfv

Hi there,
My laptop is running Windows XP Pro, is a part of my Windows domain
"mydomain", and works very well at my office. If I boot it up without any
network connection, and login as my account to "mydomain", it still works
very well.

But, if I connect it to any other network (e.g. my home network, or a
customer's network), and login as my account to "mydomain", its performance
is extremely slow.

It takes about 2 minutes to get the desktop workplace after login. If I
double click "My Computer" to try to open it, it takes about 1 minute to let
me see the C: drive - a flashlight just keeps scanning and scanning.

Help me please,

12 Dec 2006 10:16 PM

Chuck

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On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:02:17 +0100, "Cfv" <ferva***@terra.es> wrote:

>Hi there,
>My laptop is running Windows XP Pro, is a part of my Windows domain
>"mydomain", and works very well at my office. If I boot it up without any
>network connection, and login as my account to "mydomain", it still works
>very well.
>
>But, if I connect it to any other network (e.g. my home network, or a
>customer's network), and login as my account to "mydomain", its performance
>is extremely slow.
>
>It takes about 2 minutes to get the desktop workplace after login. If I
>double click "My Computer" to try to open it, it takes about 1 minute to let
>me see the C: drive - a flashlight just keeps scanning and scanning.
>
>Help me please,

When you're dealing with a domain computer temporarily used in a workgroup,
there are several settings / network products missing that could cause problems.
You could be logging in with cached domain credentials, and then looking for
critical domain network products that aren't available.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/07/windows-networking.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/07/windows-networking.html
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/have-laptop-will-travel.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/have-laptop-will-travel.html

This could even be the old DNS Client during startup problem.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/10/using-hosts-file-for-security.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/10/using-hosts-file-for-security.html

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Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
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