Digital BW, The Print

Ever since I installed the Loopback Adaptor I have had very long
startup times for Win2K, on the order of 5 minutes. First, I see a
note that \\fk\quad2200\ is being reinstalled and that holds for about
as long as a normal full startup, then the screen goes to my
background color with the hour glass for a long time (minutes) before
loading my desktop. This is more than a minor hassle as I am now
switching back and forth between my old Win2K and XP.

Is this necessary? Is there a way around it?

We can take this off-list, if it is inappropriate for this one.

Frank

you might want to look at the following

http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/winprint.html#usbprint

Or at the Microsoft Developer Net www.msdn.com for more information.

Really the loopback adapter is a systems developer feature to enable 
software testing with a network; without an actual network present.

...John

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "njfranknj" 
<njfranknj@y...> wrote:
> Ever since I installed the Loopback Adaptor I have had very long
> startup times for Win2K, on the order of 5 minutes. First, I see a
> note that \\fk\quad2200\ is being reinstalled and that holds for 
about
> as long as a normal full startup, then the screen goes to my
> background color with the hour glass for a long time (minutes) 
before

> loading my desktop. This is more than a minor hassle as I am now
> switching back and forth between my old Win2K and XP.
> 
> Is this necessary? Is there a way around it?
> 
> We can take this off-list, if it is inappropriate for this one.
> 
> Frank

Thanks, John, I may have set it up with the wrong LPT, but we'll see
if there is any difference next time I reboot.

Frank

Well, that wasn't it. I went through the directions for setting the
lpt port up with the Loopback Adaptor again and used lpt2 instead of
lpt3, which I had used before, then I deleted lpt3. I have another
printer on lpt1.

It makes absolutely no difference to the now very long startup times
I'm experiencing with Win2K. Win2K used to take about a minute to
boot, now it takes about 5 and it seems like all of that time is due
to some network setup operations - the message before the major delay
is about setting up the network connections to \\fk\quad2200\, the
location of the QTR sharing setting that the Loopback Adaptor uses.


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "njfranknj"
<njfranknj@y...> wrote:

> Thanks, John, I may have set it up with the wrong LPT, but we'll see
> if there is any difference next time I reboot.
> 
> Frank

the loopback adapter needs an IP address.
email me offline and I will send you explicit instructions.

regards
Brentley


--- njfranknj <njfranknj@...> wrote:

> Well, that wasn't it. I went through the directions for setting the
> lpt port up with the Loopback Adaptor again and used lpt2 instead
> of
> lpt3, which I had used before, then I deleted lpt3. I have another
> printer on lpt1.
>