drahnier, could you please check the status of the ashServ.exe process during the delay?
What is the duration of the period betwen ashServ.exe starting (i.e. first appearing in the Task Manager) and the red circle disappearing?
I.e. e.g. on the machine where it takes a minute to load, is ashServ.exe there for the whole minute, or only for a part of it?
Because so far it seems to me that ashServ.exe is not really hung, it just takes the system long time to load it! Maybe it's because it has a dependency on the RPC service which (under certain circumstances) loads slowly (?)
Thanks
Vlk