Login Hangs on Apply Personal Settings

[Guyute97]

Have an interesting one, XP, SP-2 with all latest patches. When the user logs in the system appears to hang on "Applying personal Settings" sits there for about 4 min and then the system tray appears and programs start loading. Did a virus scan and a spyware scan, both negative. Nothing funny appears to be loaded at login for services.

Anyone have any thoughts on this? There was an issue in SP-1 that was corrected in SP-2, but that was all I could find.

Thanks,
Guyute


--Guyute

 

[bcastner]

This for Domain workstations is nearly always a DNS issue. See the notes: faq779-4017

 

[Guyute97]

Thanks. Tried everything there but no luck. The DNS issue sped up the initial startup, but applying personal settings is still taking 4 minutes or so.

Any more thoughts on it? One of those things that just suddenly started happening 2 weeks ago.

--Guyute

 

[agrappe]

Could the local profile be corrupted? Try renaming the profile folder and login again.

 

[BrianatACS]

quick question on the xp....was it an upgrade? I have 4 machines with this same issue. I have verified all the DNS settings. Profiles are local (originally set to roam). I turned on WINS today to see if that made a difference. All machines are DHCP with the server as the DHCP providor and DNS provider with forwarding.

 

[Guyute97]

It was a new install. THe profile appears to be fine. Thanks for the help though all.

--Guyute

 

[aquias]

This really sounds like one of two issues

A) Roaming profiles - What are the size of the profiles?

B)Possible corruption with the local profiles so it won't properly load the profile without an issue.

A question, does this happen for all users of this system or just one?

 

[Guyute97]

I checked the profile, it is a local profile, 82.6mb. I only know of 1 user, need to try another.

Is there a way to tell if the profile is corrupt?

Thanks,

--Guyute

 

[bcastner]

Two thoughts:

. proactively add the profile hive service:

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

. If you suspect a profile issue, test it:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811151

 

[dbMark]

I once had problems like that and you may want to try what I did. Thinking the trust relationship got corrupted, In Control Panel, System, I moved the computer from the domain to a workgroup, then removed the computer from the doamin server, and finally added the computer back to the domain. Requires Administrator privileges.

Sometimes slowness can have more than one cause.

 

[Guyute97]

Thanks all. We ended up removing all of the network adapters and recreating them and it was fine. Wacky.

--Guyute

 

[hotema]

quite the same problem here with 2 pc's... after running ghost walker, I could not login using the administrator's account(into the domain)... it never gets past the "Applying personal Settings" screen... All other logins works fine, even the administrator's account into the local pc.. I tried deleteing the administrators folder, removing the pc from the domain and back again, also deleted the administrator from the users.. no luck yet

 

[bookouri]

hotema, did you ever solve your problem. I had the same problem with a couple of new Dell PC's we put into production last year. We just got a new batch ghosted and started installing them and its happening on almost every one now. It only seems to be administrator logons that are having problems, regular users can log on without any problems...

 

[griffjon]

If you're using trend micro, a bad virus def package was released friday Apr 22, and you've gotta download 596 or later on another machine, sneaker-net it over (safe mode local logins should still work) and copy it into the program files\trend micro\officescan client\ dir and reboot.

HTH