I'd start with eventvwr to see what's going on. Only thing I remember was about limiting what parts of a domain profile roams to prevent long logon delays, not helpful with local profiles.
I wonder if it's related to domain policies trying to refresh from a non-existing domain. Definitely sounds like waiting for something to timeout. Maybe you can set group policy options related to network &/or domain to lower timeouts or ignore the domain outright. Seems to properly test you need to be demoted back to a non-domain setup to diagnose. On Mar 27, 2011 1:22 PM, "Bino Gopal" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well what's weird is it's gotten worse since I patched to sp1 yesterday and not sure why...used to take about a min, and now it's twice as bad! > > And like I said, when I disable my wireless (this disabling all network connections) it only takes 35 secs or so-still slow considering I have an SSD (and when I first installed Windows on it before I put it on the domain it was like 2-3 secs to fully log in which was awesome!!), but WAAAY better than the current 2.5-3 mins. At this rate, I'll never want to reboot! :P > > Anyone know a way to look in the registry for whatever might be slowing things down and ripping it out?! And yeah, unless I can find something here I'll just have to get IT to take me off the domain... > > Btw, does anyone know what I'm buying myself by being on the domain now?! I never really understand the MS networking stuff; never made much sense! :P > > BINO > > > >> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:15:02 -0700 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [H] Slow logon times when not connected to the domain with Win7 laptop... >> >> 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? >> > >> > ---- >> > 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 >> >> >
