Laptop boots/performs slowly....but there is a pattern

Factual Questions
1

First, when travelling and connecting to hotel networks I don’t have this problem at all. My laptop boots rapidly and I’m off and running.

However, when I am at home and connecting to my home wireless network in the morning, my laptop boots slowly and labors significantly almost every time.

All I have to do is restart it and that takes care of the problem. It boots up faster and runs everything normally.

Any clues? Could it be attempting a task every morning only on my home wireless network and only the first time each day?

2

When you say it boots slowly, do you mean it takes a long time to go through the text based boot screens before it loads windows, or that windows itself is taking a long time to load the desktop, icons etc?
I’m no windows expert, and can’t honestly claim to have the foggiest idea what your problem could be, I’m just trying to elicit more specific info from you about the nature of the problem.
I could be wrong, but it might help to mention which version of windows you are running, too.

3

Between home and hotel do you change how you’re logged in? Do you do a local login at hotels and a domain login at home?

-Joe

4

Do you have a docking station at home or external peripherals that aren’t present at this hotel?

5

Yes… in fact I was thinking about that this morning.

I have a printer set up that is connected to another computer on the network. Frequently that computer is not running first thing in the morning.

Note however that it isn’t running when I restart either.

6

What happens if you turn off your wireless router at home, before booting up the laptop for the first time? I’m trying to find some commonality.

(If you don’t have a wireless router, what happens if you don’t plug in to the network?)

7

It’s starting smoothly now that I’ve deleted all of the old printer setups…hopefully that was the problem.