See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645 for procmon

With NIC it may be heat related i.e. connection bad until it warms up then makes contact. It doesn't happen often but it does.

>Hi Neil
>What is Procmon ?
>If it was a bad Nic or cabling problem, I's expect there to be problems once it loads after thje 3-5 minutes , but omnce it loads, its fine
>
>regards,
>Gerard
>
>
>>Run Procmon and see whats going on, Check for packet retries (Bad Nic or cabling problem)
>>
>>>On one of our sites(Windows 7) , on a few machines, when the Exe loads first, it can take about 3 to 5 minutes , doing nothing, and then ok. (It normally Takes about 5 seconds to load). When this happens, all other apps seem to hang also. After it loads though, it flies along as normal.
>>>
>>>I've checked things like Anti-virus etc .
>>>
>>>Any ideas appreciated.
>>>Tia,
>>>Gerard