We have been fighting this for some time across the enterprise. DNS
appears to be fine everywhere yet the problem persists on XP systems.
The only solution we have found, which we are rolling out now, is to
disable XP's Fast Logon Optimization. In Group Policy it is Computer
Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Logon\Always wait for the
network at computer startup and logon. You can also do this directly in
the registry if you want to try it on one machine:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
"SyncForegroundPolicy"=dword:00000001
Jeff
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rimmerman, Russ
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:29 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] Computer bootup speeds
Is there any easy way to determine why it's taking so long for PCs in
our AD to boot up? It sits at applying settings for quite awhile, so
I'm thinking it may have something to do with GPOs, but most computers
only have 2 or 3 GPOs applied to them. I wouldn't think the GPOs would
take that long to apply though. Sometimes it literally sits at applying
settings for 4 or 5 minutes!
I guess I could move a computer to an OU with no GPOs and see, but is
there any other ways?
Thanks
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