Ridiculously Slow "Personal Settings"

[Chris Shearer Cooper]

Sorry for the cross-posting, I'm not sure where to start looking ...

I'm trying to help my church get their computers under control, one of their
machines is a reasonably new Dell machine (probably less than 6 months old)
that is just painfully slow during the log-on process.

The person who normally logs onto this machine, it sits at "Applying your
personal settings" for 30 seconds (I timed it with my watch). A person who
had never logged onto that machine before, it sat at "Loading your personal
settings" for 90 seconds and "Applying your personal settings" for another
90 seconds.

The computers are on a network with a Windows 2003 / Active Directory domain
server.

Where can I look to find out what on earth this machine is doing for all
that time?

This is not just an annoyance issue, we're trying to get pcAnywhere set up
on this machine, and having it sit for several minutes doing nothing seems
to be wreaking havoc with pcAnywhere.

Thanks!
Chris

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Make sure that dns is configured correctly. Domain computers must only point
to an AD domain controller running dns with the zone for the domain and
NEVER an ISP dns server anywhere in the list. Domain controllers must point
only to themselves or other AD domain controllers running dns. Misconfigured
dns is the root of a lot of AD problems. See the link below for more info on
dns. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;291382

 

[roger]

Chris,

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:22:00 -0700, "Chris Shearer Cooper"

[...]

The person who normally logs onto this machine, it sits at "Applying your
personal settings" for 30 seconds (I timed it with my watch). A person who
had never logged onto that machine before, it sat at "Loading your personal
settings" for 90 seconds and "Applying your personal settings" for another
90 seconds.

[...]

This is normal. The computer has to create the user profile from
scratch when it is the first time that the person logs on.
Next time the user logs on, the time it takes to load will be normal.

Good luck

 

[Guest]

I have been having the same problem on my network. Even after the inital log on the machine stioll takes 3 to 3 min to load personal settings. All of the 2000 machines load fine just the XP machines have a problem. Any help would be great
Gerry