Missing printer causes overall lag

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Hello

Back at home, I've installed a printer on my LAN.
Now that I am travelling and using my wifi, my wifi starts to probe and look for my
printer automatically (for some XP reason), lagging my overall bootup.
It literally lags everything. Nothing else will start (the startup programs and services)
until this annoying procedure has been satisfied. The worst situation is that when
it never finds the printer and I can't do anything on my computer;
everything crashes because the printer probing has the most priority.
This also affects opening pictures such as .jpg. It will automatically search for a printer.
I've set this in tools/options to turn off but it doesn't help.
I've tried stopping the printer spooler, no luck.

How do I stop Windows XP from automatically searching for the LAN printer on my wifi?

Edit: I'm going to try the following:

- set the server service to manual
- delete printers that are dependent of other NICs (such as the hamachi ones)

[marvinengland]

disable lan printer from startup

start, run [ msconfig ], then click startup button ( upper right ).
uncheck [ ] lan printer and any other startup not needed.

shutdown and restart your computer.

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Didn't work.

[Salmon Trout]

marvin is one of our biggest experts; I'm sure he'll fix you up. In the meantime, look here

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320138

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Tried that before, didn't work aswell.

Googled, fixed it myself now.

link: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/rcdelay.htm

First I used RegScanner to find UNC path entries, then I saw Kaspersky has some.
Told Kaspersky's firewall to deny traffic of any type on each UNC related entry,
then in Tools > Folder Options > File Types I changed the .JPEG, .JPG > advanced
settings > 'printto' and 'print' options to not use DDE.

I believe the latter has fixed my problem.
Previously, when my wifi card was on and connected, it would lag.
Now, even with it on, it doesn't lag anymore.
Must be DDE related.

For now I'm happy.

Edit: picture open-lag is fixed. Now bootup lag still remains. I must figure out what is causing this bootup lag.
Going to try and see in eventvwr.

[BC_Programmer]

sounds like some sort of printer driver software, to me.

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I've done some troubleshooting and thought about it and I stopped sharing my printers (since it said 'shares printer with devices over the network'). Disabling this sharing (on the laptop part) has cured my bootup lag somewhat. It definitely has fixed my wifi-lag on bootup-problem.
Today I analyzed my personal data volume disk (where I put my stuff) and it said "you should defragment this volume". So I did, now things go a bit better. Bootup time is ~2 minutes but that's because it loads Kaspersky.
I'm happy I don't have to disable the wifi on bootup anymore.

Now it seems to come down to fragmentation. I have 2 huge backup .v2i files (17 GB) that 'can't be moved'.
I'll probably buy a pen drive and put my backup images on there and keep just 1 backup of my system drive on here.

Now let's see:
- picture menu & doubleclick/open lag fixed (disabled DDE functions)
- wifi and programs stuck on bootup fixed (disabled printer sharing on laptop end)

I guess I'm fine. I would say I'm 95% happy.
If there occur more annoyances I'll just post them.