Slow signon

[Mark Toby]

Does anyone know why, when I signon to a domain on a particular PC, the signon stalls for several minutes with the message "Applying your personal settings" before it continues on normally? It is a windows 2000 professional machine with all the current service packs installed. The signon works fine on another Win2000 machine.

Any help, or knowledge of what is happening at that point would be appreciated!


Thanks,

Mark

 

[Daniel Chang [MSFT]]

Have you checked the DNS settings for that machine to make sure it's the
same as the other machine not experiencing the problem? Does it have a
different computer policy (through GPO/AD)?

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Daniel Chang
Server Setup Team

Search our Knowledge Base at http://support.microsoft.com/directory
Visit the Windows 2000 Homepage at
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/default.asp
See the Windows NT Homepage at http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/

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: Does anyone know why, when I signon to a domain on a particular PC, the
signon stalls for several minutes with the message "Applying your personal
settings" before it continues on normally? It is a windows 2000 professional
machine with all the current service packs installed. The signon works fine
on another Win2000 machine.
:
: Any help, or knowledge of what is happening at that point would be
appreciated!
:
:
: Thanks,
:
: Mark

 

[Guest]

I have been experiencing this issue for two months now it comes and goes. This cannot be a DNS issue. This must be a convergence problem, within Microsoft. If this was a DNS issue, or a group policy then it should impact all workstations simultaneously & continuously. Not once in a while. Daniel Can you research this a little more Please. This seems to be an issue, which has allot of unknowns behind it

Thank

Greg Vartania

----- Daniel Chang [MSFT] wrote: ----

Have you checked the DNS settings for that machine to make sure it's th
same as the other machine not experiencing the problem? Does it have
different computer policy (through GPO/AD)

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Daniel Chan
Server Setup Tea

Search our Knowledge Base at http://support.microsoft.com/director
Visit the Windows 2000 Homepage a
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/default.as
See the Windows NT Homepage at http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver

NOTE: Please reply to the newsgroup and not directly to me. This allow
others to add to and benefit from these threads and also helps to ensure
more timely response. Thank you
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implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties o
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose
The views and opinions expressed in this newsgroup posting are mine and d
not necessarily express or reflect the views and / or opinions of Microsoft


: Does anyone know why, when I signon to a domain on a particular PC, th
signon stalls for several minutes with the message "Applying your persona
settings" before it continues on normally? It is a windows 2000 professiona
machine with all the current service packs installed. The signon works fin
on another Win2000 machine

: Any help, or knowledge of what is happening at that point would b
appreciated


: Thanks

: Mark

 

[DocA]

Have you tried this tweak?

http://www.jsifaq.com/SUBH/tip3500/rh3594.htm

Adrian

I have been experiencing this issue for two months now it comes and goes.

This cannot be a DNS issue. This must be a convergence problem, within
Microsoft. If this was a DNS issue, or a group policy then it should impact
all workstations simultaneously & continuously. Not once in a while. Daniel
Can you research this a little more Please. This seems to be an issue, which
has allot of unknowns behind it.

Thanks

Greg Vartanian


----- Daniel Chang [MSFT] wrote: -----

Have you checked the DNS settings for that machine to make sure it's the
same as the other machine not experiencing the problem? Does it have a
different computer policy (through GPO/AD)?

--
--
Daniel Chang
Server Setup Team

Search our Knowledge Base at http://support.microsoft.com/directory
Visit the Windows 2000 Homepage at
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/default.asp
See the Windows NT Homepage at http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/

NOTE: Please reply to the newsgroup and not directly to me. This allows
others to add to and benefit from these threads and also helps to ensure a
more timely response. Thank you!
This posting is provided "AS IS" without warranty either expressed or
implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
The views and opinions expressed in this newsgroup posting are mine and do
not necessarily express or reflect the views and / or opinions of Microsoft.


: Does anyone know why, when I signon to a domain on a particular PC, the
signon stalls for several minutes with the message "Applying your personal
settings" before it continues on normally? It is a windows 2000 professional
machine with all the current service packs installed. The signon works fine
on another Win2000 machine.
:
: Any help, or knowledge of what is happening at that point would be
appreciated!
:
:
: Thanks,
:
: Mark

 

[Greg Stigers]

Well, I would guess there could be a problem with the personal settings on
this one PC. User profiles can be damaged, with interesting results, but
that is not where I would look first. Have you tried signing on another
account? Remember, on first sign on, Windows has to create the profile, so
the first sign on for another account may seem to take a while. Signing on a
second time would be more indicative.

I googled microsoft.com for "personal settings", and two articles caught my
eye.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=329457
about a complex array of group policies, and
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;315270
This one deals with a too small paging file, so check that. Similarly, make
sure that this PC has adequate CPU & RAM.

Greg Stigers, MCSA
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