Hello!

I have a client who has a 2 year old Dell with Win2K installed on a peer to
peer network. This machine has had issues since the day it arrived, but it
is useable. Here's the latest:

On a reboot (or cold start), the machine boots up fine to the desktop (and
just before I can see the momentary flash of the connection made to a mapped
network drive). After maybe 10 seconds at the desktop, the hourglass
disappears and all seems wonderful. Two anomalies: the network connection
icon in the system tray is not there, and the Norton AV (2002) auto protect
is disabled (though in the system tray, it looks fine - no red X through the
icon). All local programs work fine. However, I cannot access the network -
more or less. When I click on Network Neighborhood, the status bar shows the
correct number of objects, but the window is blank and the "program" says it
is not responding. Attempting to access the *bad* computer from another on
the network brings up an error message of access denied.  And here's the fun
part: after around 4 minutes after the desktop comes up, the network icon
shows up in the system tray, and EVERYTHING works as it is supposed to.
Norton's? I have to open the program and, poof, auto protect is back on.

This happens whether I jump up and down, change settings, open programs,
etc. It just takes 4 minutes to get going correctly (maybe it's just
sleepy?).

I would greatly appreciate any suggestions anyone might have. Please let me
know if you need more information. Thanks!

Will Stephenson
Acadia Technologies Inc.
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