establishing communciation protocols (Score 1)

Another problem with reboot/wakeup is that many services have to establish communication with the outside world. XP has what I consider to be a bug, every new internet link requires a new session of svchost.exe, the bug is that this totally consumes the CPU, the computer is nearly frozen for 10-30 seconds. This is part of the login process even though the login is actually finished and everything is running.

Dvorak wrote a few months ago about the problems MS has writing multitasking code. svchost.exe is yet another example.