very slow "applying your personal settings"

[mike-ca]

everytime i login to XPE after reboot, it takes about 8 minutes, kind
of stuck in the "applying your personal settings" part, what can
possibly be the cause of this slowness.


thanks

 

[KM]

mike,

There may be few reasons for the slow login.
You may want to check some obvious things:
- make sure the Processor component in your config is in match with the hardware
- make sure DHCP server is responding quickly to your target if you use DHCP addresses. Otherwise, switch to static IP.
- make a many services in your XPe system disabled or manual started as possible (depending on your system specs). Some
services and other components may be removed and that may also speed up the system.
- use Explorer shell with Winlogon (or use the event hack posted n this NG few days ago if you use your own custom shell app)
- use MS BootVis app (search Google for downloads) to analyze why boot time is so long on your target
- do not use logon to a Domain if possible
- check if you video driver got installed properly
- check out your FBALog.txt and SetupAPI.logs for possible driver and app install errors

 

[mike-ca]

KM,

this problem occured after i applied my security template. inside the
template, i changed some service startup modes. when i rebooted after
applying the template, i experienced this slow login problem, also some
other, like getting a "Win32: Access is denied" error when clicking on
"dependencies" tab in service property panel, cannot launch "msinfo32"
(error: cannot collect information), some of my services are not auto
started, and so on. really frustring to figure out the root cause of
those problems.

so, i just switched to use an utility to configure the service instead
using security template, that seems fixed all my problems....

thanks