Recently, due to me trying to play this next game (that I was planning to feature on my blog), I went to do a much needed update for my graphics card.
So after deciding to do a clean installation just to be sure that it would run okay for the game, I found out that after having installed the drivers...that my network icon became very sluggish to load.
I had to wait about 4 to 5 minutes I think before it came out, during which it caused my whole system to lag when I'm opening folders on my hdd drive or just opening up my browser program. (Everything starts to function properly after the icon finishes loading.)
Initially, I had suspected that it might have been something to do with the graphics card drivers. So after searching through my taskbar processes, I eventually narrowed it down to these two, Nvnetworkservice.exe and Nvbackend.exe (something to do with the whole "Geforce Experience" thingy).
However, after having tried by uninstalling the Geforce Experience program via "Add or Remove Programs" (in Control Panel), I found that the silly issue still persisted. The Network icon was still sluggish to load and my system still lagged because of it. Hence it wasn't the source of the problem...
Anyway, long story short, after continuing my search, I eventually found that this whole thing was caused by one silly program that the graphics drivers did also install - something called the "Microsoft .NET Framework 4" apparently. (Or more specifically, this little fella in the services.msc called "Microsoft .NET Framework NGEN v4.0".)
So following the instructions given in the reference article, I've managed to salvage the system and everything returned back to normal. Well...somewhat I guess, since there's no visible difference now compared to back before I've installed the drivers.
Reference:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-networking/network-icon-slow-to-load-security-popup/0d036ff8-49b3-46ec-ba61-eccbfc0bf0e2
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