So this one friend was complaining about his Windows XP acting sluggish after he has logged in. It takes almost 3 minutes until he is able to open the Windows Explorer – during that time the computer reacts very slowly, but the CPU load never really jumps up. After installing all updates and such I was playing around with the services just to find out that following services from Roxio cause the delay:

• Roxio Hard Drive Watcher 9
  (“C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\9.0\SharedCOM\RoxWatch9.exe”)
• Roxio Upnp Server 9
  (“C:\Program Files\Roxio\Digital Home 9\RoxioUpnpService9.exe”)
• LiveShare P2P Server 9
  (“C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\9.0\SharedCOM\RoxLiveShare9.exe” (Allows remote users to view through WEB browsers your authorized multimedia content managed by Roxio Media Manager9.))

After disabling all those three services everything was working fine. Now I am really surprised why Dell decided to install a LiveShare P2P Server on a business laptop.  If it was not Dell then most likely this was installed with the BlackBerry MediaManager software which is made by Roxio. It might be a good idea to completely get rid of this software – sounds very dodgy to me.

This motivated me to check why one of my personal laptops was also showing similar symptoms. It took about 30 seconds after login until I was able to open the Explorer. During that time I was not able to do anything on the desktop. So trial and error showed that the culprit was one dll loaded upon startup:

C:\Programme\Intel\Wireless\Bin\LgNotify.dll

You can find it in this registry key:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify

Alternativle use autoruns from Sysinternals to disable loading of this dll.