We only have a few Win 7 boxes in service, but as far as I can tell it is only me having this issue. Started yesterday afternoon. I swear to the Redmond Gods that I did not change anything on my account or machines or GPO's yesterday.
Takes forever to get past 'Please Wait' to get to the log on screen. It is clearly hanging trying to contact a domain controller and get gpo's and scripts. But the reason it is hanging there is because the network card has not gotten a link yet. GPO processing fails with 1129 (lack of network connectivity to a domain controller) then a few seconds later the NIC records an event that it has a link. If I pull the network cable it starts up normally, then plug in the cable and it grabs an IP and runs just fine. Updated NIC drivers. Deleted all the network connections and the NIC and reinstalled. Disabled all the power saving features on the NIC. Ran sfc - system file checker. Ran the Win 7 DVD repair process. Boot logging shows something interesting, it loads ndproxy.sys once, then fails four times. Loaded driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\NDProxy.SYS Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\NDProxy.SYS Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\NDProxy.SYS Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\NDProxy.SYS Did not load driver \SystemRoot\System32\Drivers\NDProxy.SYS I am getting now where. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
