Endpoint Protection

Hi, this relates to Symantec Network Access Control on XP clients.

If we look to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\HwOrder
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\NetworkProvider\Order

we find the following data

SnacNp,hgfs,RDPNP,LanmanWorkstation,WebClient,PnSson,PssoCM32

(hgfs is coming from old VMWare workstation. We will clean on all clients.  PssoCM32 is PointSec drive encryption)

Surely RDPNP or LanmanWorkstation should be in first place.

We are experiencing slow startups.

I cannot find authoritative advice on this.

Thanks

Problem must be somewhere else. I'm not sure how the load order of those listed could affect the performance of the PC. Have you contacted Support yet?

Hi, yes.

Had a ticket with support for some time. Seems like it even went to someone who knows what he is doing.

Conclusion

SnacNp should be in last position.

 

Naturally, Symantec being Symantec the installer places SnacNp in the first position.

 

Had tickets with each vendor. The order does affect performance. The most heavily used provider should be in front etc.

 

Thanks

Glad to know it got resolved. And we at the forums learned something new. :D

Thanks for sharing.

I forgot to take into account what a process does when being loaded into memory. And security products inspect running processes and files which could add up to the load times.