Additionally, use Process Explorer (your debugger of choice) and see what the threads in Explorer.exe are stuck on
Cheers Ken ________________________________ From: David [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 4 June 2009 1:32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Explorer on W2k3R2 servers slow to come up after unlocking screen saver Can you replicate the same behavior under a different profile? On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Maglinger, Paul <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Still getting the same thing, as far as the taskbar goes. Desktop icons are there, but all I see of the taskbar is the outline. No buttons, no Quick Links, not even the clock. When it does come up and I bring up the properties, if I make a change and click apply I get an hourglass. If I close the properties window, Explorer appears to restart. ________________________________ From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Explorer on W2k3R2 servers slow to come up after unlocking screen saver I checked the settings and the only thing on was to turn the monitor off after 20 minutes. Funny thing, when I brought it up this time, the desktop icons were there and you could see the "outline" of the taskbar, but no buttons. I tried opening and closing task manager, then I opened Explorer by double-clicking on My Computer. When I closed the explorer, then the taskbar looked normal. I'll try it again after awhile and see if the power setting change made a difference. ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 11:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Explorer on W2k3R2 servers slow to come up after unlocking screen saver Have you checked the power settings in the screen saver section? The NIC properties? Sometimes other parts of a system will be put into a non-active state after a period. Why this happens on a server OS is beyond me, but I'd check those first. As to the shortage of fishing poles, some of us know of an admin considering selling his fishing pole after having used it to through a practice plug through a 42" LCD TV... -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 www.aspca.org<http://www.aspca.org/> The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals® (ASPCA®) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. "Maglinger, Paul" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote on 06/02/2009 10:55:59 AM: > Has anyone had any issues with Windows 2003 R2 servers taking a long > time for the desktop to come up after unlocking the console from a > screen saver time out? I'm seeing this on a few of our servers, but > can't put my finger on exactly when it started happening. I'm not > seeing any of the resources getting pegged. What I'm seeing is when I > log in from a time-out, I show a blank desktop, no task-bar, no icons, > nuttin'. I can get the task manager to come up, and sometimes when I > close out the task manager the desktop will go ahead and come up. > Really weird... anyone else? > > > If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd > be a shortage of fishing poles. - Doug Larson > > ________________________________ > > Paul > -- David _____________________ We are summoned to act in wisdom and in conscience, to work with industry, to teach with persuasion, to preach with conviction, to weigh our every deed with care and compassion. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
