Which windows version ?
Sorry if I missed it, guess it's vista. I have read about this before, can take up to 10 mins. Could be its looking for a network drive, does 'My Computer' show any ? If so, try deleting these (only shortcuts). Worthwhile checking your hard drive for errors to (control panel>administrative tools>computer management>disk management in XP). Select the drive, right click, properties, then tools. There is an option to check for errors. In control panel, under systems also check to see its till udma and not reverted to pio.
Under the administrative tools thing tab earlier, you could also check the 'event viewer' to see if there are any problems being reported.
If no joy & vista, buy windows 7 or revert to XP !
Last edited by Mr Optimistic; 24th December 2009 at 13:09.
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