We are running Symantec Antivirus 10.0.1.1007.  After I log in, I see my background and then it sits with with just the background for 3 mintues and then eventually my icons all show up.  If we remove symantec from the PC this stops.  This only happens in XP and never happens in Windows 2000.  Once they started migrating our company to XP every PC had this problem and still does.  Also if I let it sit at the ctrl-alt-delete screen and walk away for 3 minutes or more then when I type in my userid and password it goes right to the desktop with icons.  It's like it is looking for something for 3 minutes and after that you are fine.  Also I've noticed that in every event log there is the following system error....

 

The Symantec Settings Manager service terminated with service-specific error 4294967295 (0xFFFFFFFF).

 

I've bugged our PC support dept over and over about this and they just dont seem to want to spend the time to fix it.

 

Any ideas of what I can try or ask them to try?  I have local admin rights to this PC but cant stop or start the symantec service.

 

Thanks

 

Phil