Applying security settings takes 20 mins

[cbr1000]

Hi

I have a user with a HP XE3i laptop with Win 2000 Pro installed. Every 2-3 startups, the login process gets to 'Applying security settings' and will sit there for about 20 minutes. If you try to cancel this by re-starting the machine and re-booting it will keep re-occuring until it successfully goes through the process.

After it has logged on to the local machine successfully, the next boot-up is usually ok with 'Applying Security Settings' taking the correct amount of time. Then after another couple of re-boots the above problem is repeated.

Anyone seen this before or have any ideas of the cause.

Thanks in advance

Martin

 

[aftertaf]

do you have anything in the event logs when this happens??

Aftertaf

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[bcastner]

. disable, not uninstall, any unused network adapters

. Add the User Profile Hive Cleanup service:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en