More than likely it has to do with the mapping of the SMB shares. Removing the login script will work, but as soon as you login to the domain, it will cache it again. lol, any way you can take yourself off the domain?
---- Julian On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Bino Gopal <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >
