Windows 7: network not ready (blue circle is spinning)
On my Win7-PC the network takes up to 10 minutes until it's shown as ready (through network icon). The weird thing is that even in the meantime (blue circle is spinning) network activities like mail, internet and access to network shares are working.
How does Win7 decide that a network is ready?
The issue is that one of my installed apps which uses the IP stack (runs on localhost) doesn't work until the network is in ready-state. I found out that if I disable the Windows Management Instrumentation service the network state switches to ready immediately. However, this prevents a couple of other services from starting what could lead to a security issue. (To me it seems like my PC waits until it gets a GO from our network... but no evidence here)
Any hints?
Answer
Try to apply this hotfix, sometimes it works:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2617858
When it happens to me I have to kill the process tree of two services:
SMS Agent Host
Winmgmt
(select the service, right click, select "go to process", right click on the process, select "end process tree"; if you cannot see the process remember to click the "show processes from all the users" button). Finally delete the "c:\windows\system32\wbem\repository" folder as fast as possible. The "repository" folder will be re-created and the network will start working properly.