For sure it sounds like repeated calls to the network, 3 or 6 depending on
timeouts & retry values.
On Mar 27, 2011 7:29 AM, "Julian Zottl" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?
>
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> 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
>>
