Thread hijack alert (sort of

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I've recently found that SDMCP.EXE is causing my DELL 2650 laptop to hang up at the point where the startment/startup files are loading. It gets as far as showing my desktop icons & the startbar (containing BANDVWM but no icon tray) but that's where it stops with the hourglass always showing.
I can Ctrl-Alt-Del to taskmangler & kill SDMCP after which the autostart files resume loading, but with the icon tray missing from the startbar. To get that back I logout & login again.
The thing is: it's not consistent - sometimes there'll be 3 or 4 boot-ups in a row with no problems.
Unless anyone's seen this before & has a handle on it, I guess I'll take it to the Stardock newsgroups.