applying settings screen on bootup takes forever... 2

[elmurado]

well, not literally forever but nearly.
Have a Toshiba portege M200 1.6G 512 RAM with XpPro (tablet edition) when it boots up it takes almsot three to fourminutes to apply computer then personal settings.
Now we have a few GPO's but none of them should take that long. We have two very small login scripts too but these run after the applying settings stage.
It is quicker though when not logging onto the domain--ie at home and at home it uses a wireless card to access the network.
I think it may be a NIC issue.
Any ideas? I've tried disabling all the raft of Toshiba startups which seem useless.

 

[freemanmc]

elmurado,
I am having the same problem as you. Have you made any further progress?

freemanmc

 

[freemanmc]

I searched and searched for an answer. I think I found it. Install your latest drivers for your WLAN adapter. Then, uninstall the device from Device Manager. Reboot. WLAN adapter will be recognized again. That seemed to fix it on my machine.

good luck.

 

[elmurado]

Hi freemanmc,
No progress as yet. I've been talking to MS about this and they have suggested a couple of registry changes:
C) Delay the start of the Services Network Location Awareness (nla) and Workstation (lanmanworkstation) with the following registry settings:



NOTE for nla by default the values Tcpip and Afd will already be present



hklm\system\currentcontrolset\services\nla

key name = DependOnService

key type = reg_multi_sz (multi-string value)

key data = Tcpip Afd Spooler



hklm\system\currentcontrolset\services\workstation

key name = DependOnService

key type = reg_multi_sz (multi-string value)

key data = Spooler

i haven't tried this and the usual disclaimer applies here ;-)

 

[elmurado]

excellent. will try it.
thanks

 

[ys211]

Have the same issue. Changing registry settings does not solve the problem. During Applying Computer Settings message hard disk is really busy. Any idea what it's doing?

 

[runawayabc123]

I had a similar problem with REALLY long log on times.

(I actually found the fix early in this thread.)

It has to do with the DNS servers.

The domain controller has to point to itself for DNS (and forwarder for outside traffic).

ALSO, the node computers need to point to the domain controller for the primary DNS server.

Login time went from >2min to about 5 seconds

 

[elmurado]

YS, have you tried a clean boot to see whether you can pinpoint the problem?

 

[JacksonGuy]

I do know that Windows XP puts the wireless card on top of the priority list. Maybe what Windows is doing is when it on the Dmain it is searching for a wireless connection. The way you fix this is go into the network connections via the control pannel and select advanced-> advanced settings. Move the wireless card to second in the list. This will cause it to use the LAN connection over the wireless if it is present.