>>we've got a few machines here at work that are a bear to work with.
>>sometimes when clicking the start bar, the start button will remain depressed for about 60-90 seconds before the popup comes up ( if at all ). the same happens when trying to follow a link in the start bar to another menu or when navigating direcotries with windows explorer.
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>What kind of machines are this? With how much of RAM? When you click the start-menu, is the disk still heavily reading? Could it be, that someone was editing the registry & changing the time, in which to show a menu? Check the system for viruses also, in case they are not really slow.

the worst one is a p75 w/ 24 megs of ram. there is no disk activity at all until the start-menu actually responds. do you know, where that key is in the registry? i don't however think that's the problem because stall is intermittent. the machine has the newest version of McCaffe on the system with Vshield loaded all the time. i am running a full virus scan right now. thanks