Slow initialisation when connected to network

  • >I have a weird problem that when I start any program that uses WPTools
    >(including the demo program from the web site) it takes over ten seconds to
    >actually finish is initialisation and display the control. The demo program
    >shows the splash screen then waits ten seconds before displaying the editor.
    >By experimentation, I discovered that it only does this when my machine is
    >connected to the local LAN. When I disable the network card, it works fine
    >at normal speed.
    >Does the WPTools component try to access the network at all during start-up?
    >Anybody else experienced this, or is it just my PC (WinXP SP1 - Office 2003,
    >IE6, 512RAM)?

    This is probably the printer driver - if it works over the net it can
    be very slow. I assume this is the reaons for it.

    For the Toolbar set FontChoice = fsScreenFonts and for the TWPRichText
    set WYSIWYG to false.