Initialization slowdowns due to Ryzom?

[bolque]

Why would SoR cause my operating system to take up to 10 minutes to completely finish initializing (all tasktray processes complete, Explorer can be opened, etc.) after I log in?

I'm using Windows 2000, but I've also tried this with Windows XP. With Ryzom installed, this odd (and increasingly annoying) delay occurs. If I uninstall Ryzom, the OS boots up quickly as it used to.

This is on a 3.0GHz P4 w/ HT enabled, 1GB DDR333 RAM, ATI Radeon 9600SE w/ 128MB. 160GB HD with about 140GB free, and defragmented regularly.

Anybody else experience this, or have a suggestion for a solution? What is Ryzom doing that would cause this?

[bolque]

Just me, huh?

[mehanson]

Just me, huh?

Must be ...

Haven't experienced this with WinXP pro, but "back in the day" I used to see things like this with Win3.1 and Win95 if the software package installed a massive DLL into Windows\System that "self registered" everytime I booted up.

But, like I said, haven't experienced this with any software packages on WinXP pro, including SoR.