logon to guest acount takes over an hour

[Agent86]

Hello, I enabled the guest account. Each time I logon to guest account, it
takes over an hour, displays a msg "Loading Personal Settings". During this
hour, there is a ton of disk activity. After logon is done, I notice that
that My Docs for guest accounts has a lot of duplicated files and directories
from the admin account. Can someone help me resolve? Logon to admin account
takes only a few seconds, just logon to guest account takes over an hour,
each time.
Thanks....

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hello, I enabled the guest account. Each time I logon to guest account, it
takes over an hour, displays a msg "Loading Personal Settings". During
this
hour, there is a ton of disk activity. After logon is done, I notice that
that My Docs for guest accounts has a lot of duplicated files and
directories
from the admin account. Can someone help me resolve? Logon to admin
account
takes only a few seconds, just logon to guest account takes over an hour,
each time.
Thanks....

Perhaps you have a lot of unwanted stuff in the hidden profile folder
"c:\Documents and Settings\Default User". If so then this stuff would need
to be copied to the Guest profile each time. You should examine the "Default
User" profile a little more closely.

 

[Agent86]

Perhaps you have a lot of unwanted stuff in the hidden profile folder
"c:\Documents and Settings\Default User". If so then this stuff would need
to be copied to the Guest profile each time. You should examine the "Default
User" profile a little more closely.


Hello, yes that was the problem. After cleaning up Default User, now the guest logon does not take too long. One more question, how can I customize the Guest Start Menu. The Guest Menu seems to be a copy of the All User Menu but if I edit the All User's Menu, it effects the menu for everyone including my admin user. I found something call Guest Menu but it does not seem to be the actual Guest Menu. It seems to be much samller than the Guest Menu currently displayed.

 

[Malke]

I just answered your question about the Guest account in your other thread.
Please read what I wrote and disable Guest and create a regular Standard
(or Limited if you have XP Home) user account. Any further questions about
this should be posted in your other thread.

Malke