Hey guys,
After 6 hours of googling not finding it, I'm hoping someone here can clue me
in to this bit of MS esoterica:
I have a Win7 Ent 64-bit Lenovo T61 (just upgraded to sp1 and the latest
updates) and especially after the recent updates, it takes a LOOONG time to log
me in-literally 2.5-3 mins and I've timed it multiple times, so no I'm not
exaggerating!
It's got an SSD as the boot drive...hmm now that makes me wonder if the SSD
could somehow be slowing things down (it's only a year old, and it's an Intel
G2 SSD and I did run the utils for it recently and it said it was fine fwiw).
Let's assume that's not the issue for now...
I'm pretty sure the issue is that this is a work laptop that was added to the
work domain, but 99% of the time I'm at home and not connected to the domain
(and not connected by a VPN) so I'm usually "romaing"-is that the right term?
I think I ran into this in the past on my old work T42 with XP and I googled it
and deleted my logon script entries in the registry and changed some login
timeouts to contact the DC/PDC and it was fine! Well I tried the same thing
for Win7 (e.g. got rid of the logon banner just now) and found some Local
Security Policy (secpol.msc) settings, and Local Group Policy (gpedit.msc)
settings, and other stuff in that general area referencing Logon and Net Logon
and changed all that stuff to eliminate delays and crossed my fingers and
rebooted and ended up with nothing-still 2.5 mins for my last login, which is
an *ETERNITY*!
So does anyone know what settings I really need to change since I was able to
remedy this in XP pretty easily? Fwiw, I did do a boot with my wireless card
disabled (my LAN port is already disabled since I hardly use it anymore) and it
was only a 30 second delay to logon in that case (still slower than I expected,
but much better than 2.5-3 mins!) so it definitely seems like something
network-related...obviously once I figureout this delay, I'd like to see why
it's even taking that long and reduce that logon time, but I'm not there yet!
Any help with this is REALLY appreciated as I've been searching for hours and
it's really bugging me-enough that I even signed up for a frakkin' Experts
Exchange account, which is probably useless from the responses I've seen from
them so far! Thanks guys...
BINO
