re: Extreme slowdown while working offline in Win2k
Monday, May 16, 2005 at 5:58 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by adrian
(788 messages posted)
Win2000 is "by nature" a networking os. Which means that it will try by default to:
find network resources, index same, reestablish connectons, etc. When you are not
connected, all these activities will fail, but it takes a long time.
This is the workaround I use: I set all the services associated with network activities
as MANUAL, not automatic, and I created two batch files, one containing net start
commands, and the other net stop commands, with shortcuts on the desktop,
so I have those services running only when I am connected.
Example line for startnet.bat:
net start "world wide web publishing service"
Check each line in a command prompt window (disregard misleading warnings)
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