[THIN] Re: The slowest Start button on the planet - guaranteed

  • From: Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:42:08 -0500

How large is the profile being loaded?  I found once i managed to get
my profiles down to a couple of meg, "speed to start menu"
dramatically improved.


On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:09:57 -0500, Pardee, Michael P. <MPardee@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Environment - NT4, Metaframe 1.8 (I know, I know).
> 
> Around 80 servers.  Upon logon, you spend minutes waiting to be able to
> fully control the Start Button.  I believe something is up with Explorer,
> but I haven't been able to find it yet.  The ICA Toolbar is also seen on the
> Desktop, but everything on it works immediately.  So, my workaround to
> figure out what is happening on a server is to add the Command Prompt to the
> ICA Toolbar, click it, and then do everything I need to from there.
> Explorer really seems to be the only thing that is acting this way.
> 
> After a few minutes Explorer seems to finally be done doing whatever it is
> doing and everything is fine the rest of the day for that session.  I have
> run AdAware, Hijack This, etc looking for any additional clues but came up
> empty.
> 
> How can I find out exactly what Explorer is doing when this is happening?  I
> have tried FileMon and am heading for RegMon next.  Great tools, but not a
> lot of fun with 50 other users on the server at the same time.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> > Michael Pardee
> > Director
> > Coventry Health Care, Inc.
> > Phone:        (724) 778-3733
> > Fax:  (724) 778-6899
> >
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