I dont normally post about these kind of problems as I usually figure them out myself, but this is a problem i've had on a number of computers over the years and it has just come and gone at total random. I have done a bit of searching for it, but I'm not sure what to search for exactly. I see others have had this problem but it was more of a "icons never show up" type of thing.
Basically what happens is, the computer will boot up and the mouse will just be sitting there with the wallpaper visible. Sometimes the mouse has a small hour glass, and sometimes not. If i wait a bit of time, often more than a minute or two, it will finally boot up. Or if i hit the escape key, it will also finish booting. So i can only think that there is some software trying to do something that it cant and hitting escape stops it from trying. Does anyone know what I should look for and/or what might be the problem?
Current computer that is having this problem is a laptop. I thought maybe the wired nic might be trying to pull DHCP or something, or even the wifi, but the wired is disconnected and the wifi seems to come up instantly if i hit escape right away when i see the screen come up, so its not like its looking for an ip cause it has one right away when I hit escape.
Any help is much appriciated
Basically what happens is, the computer will boot up and the mouse will just be sitting there with the wallpaper visible. Sometimes the mouse has a small hour glass, and sometimes not. If i wait a bit of time, often more than a minute or two, it will finally boot up. Or if i hit the escape key, it will also finish booting. So i can only think that there is some software trying to do something that it cant and hitting escape stops it from trying. Does anyone know what I should look for and/or what might be the problem?
Current computer that is having this problem is a laptop. I thought maybe the wired nic might be trying to pull DHCP or something, or even the wifi, but the wired is disconnected and the wifi seems to come up instantly if i hit escape right away when i see the screen come up, so its not like its looking for an ip cause it has one right away when I hit escape.
Any help is much appriciated