Big delay on Windows Welcome Screen

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I don't know if this is a Parallels issue or a Windows issue, but when I start the computer up, it boots up really fast to the Windows welcome screen, but then it hangs there for at least a minute. I've had Parallels since Beta 2 and it showed this behavior ever since I installed Windows XP. Does anyone know what is causing the hang?
 
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I have the same problem.

During log in, the welcome screen hangs for about a 40 secs to a minute during win XP boot up.
I can't figure out why.


Guest OS: Win XP SP2 set with 256 mb ram
Primary OS: OS X 10.4.6
Macbook pro, 2.0 Ghz, 2 gb ram
 
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I disabled USB support and it helped a bit. But I still get a long (20 second) delay at the Welcome Screen. Very annoying - especially when I'm trying to demo Parallels for someone.

MacBook Pro 2.16
1 gb RAM
Parallels Build 1848
 
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If you disable both your network and USB and reboot, then shut down and enable both USB and the network, then this resolved the problem for me.

I suspect you just need to rebuild the virtual machine file for new versions of teh software.
 
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Turning off Network fixed the problem - but it returned when I turned on network again.

Weird.

I wonder if it might have to do with network settings on my XP?
 
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I uninstalled Parallels. I removed all the support files in /Library/Parallels and /Users/me/Library/Parallels. I deleted the plist file. I deleted my Windows install (in /Users/me/Library/Parallels).

I reinstalled Parallels. I reinstalled Windows XP. I reinstalled Parallels tools.

All is good. For now.

Boots in 15 second. No delay at the welcome screen.
 
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It's clearly a function of how fast the network can find an IP address. I am using DHCP in Windows and it is better in this release than in any Beta version, but still sometimes takes a while to connect.

Sometimes it is really fast, other times it is somewhat slow. If I disable the network in the VM it is always fast. I suspect if you manually set the IP and DNS values in XP it will always be fast.
 
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