XP

I haven't seen it written about much but I've seen it on a few machines running Windows XP SP2. The most annoying part is that it affects my laptop quite a bit during the boot process. Anything network related will hang until RasMan finally launches, which typically will be 5 minutes after the system has booted and the desktop has been painted.

Once the service 'unsticks', everything works normally. I've tried to narrow down the causes but I haven't found anything telltale yet. Just curious if anyone else has had the same type of problem out there in the wild.

For now I've disabled the service because, for the most part, I'd rather have a working machine than the ability to dial out on a VPN connection.

I didn't think it was possible, previously, but apparently it is. I won't cut and paste here because I'd rather send you to the source.

A great Microsoft blog writeup on it

I always thought those 'tweak' site suggestions were a bit odd.

http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000743.html