Windows XP explorer freeze when a VPN connection occurs

[johnstg]

Hi,

A number of travelling working of one of my clients regularly use VPN connections, through an ISA server back to the office. The tend to use the hibernate function on the windows XP based notebooks, and a combination of wireless broadband cards, client networks, public wireless access points and dial up connections to be able to reacdh the office to access files / update client details in the CRM package, and access e-mail.

They are regularly seeing the notebook freeze when the VPN connects or disconnects for periods of several minutes, the mouse works, but explorer seems to just go into sleep mode, only to wake up several minutes later, and then behave quite normally.

Any suggestions ?



Regards

Glenn

[DaveC2003]

What VPN software are you using??

[dontera]

I know this is an old thread but perhaps someone out there knows a trick.

I have the exact same issue as OP. It doesn't happen every time, but often enough to warrant a fix.

I am using the built-in XP (Pro SP2) VPN connection.