I have several users on each of my 20+ machines. Some user profiles will logon immediately while others on the same machine will hang on "Applying settings" for 5 minutes. Some of these I have created new users and copied the files from the old ones to fix it but every once in a while a profile will start logging on very slowly for no reason. I check for spyware religiously but I find nothing. Any ideas???
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Sounds like for some reason their profiles are getting corrupted. Back up their data and delete the offending profile(s). Do not copy the data over until you log out and login a couple of times to check and see if it corrects the slow login.
As far as what would be corrupting them I dont know of anything specific. Could be too many temp files or too large temp internet size. I usually keep mine at 50-100MB just so its not to small but not gigantic. Could be any number of factors though(including a virus or spyware/malware).
If this works, but it starts happening again you might try deleting just 1 folder at a time to see which one might be causing the problem.
Also might do a scandisk/surface scan to make sure there arent some bad spots on the drive.
If your system hangs about 2 or 3 minutes at startup, where you can't access the Start button or the Taskbar, it may be due to one specific service (Background Intelligent Transfer) running in the background.
1. Click on Start/Run, type 'msconfig', then click 'OK'. 2. Go to the 'Services' tab, find the 'Background Intelligent Transfer' service, disable it, apply the changes & reboot.
I recently had this problem when i forgot to redirect My Documents to the Home directory. One user had 300Mb in his profile. It was taking forever to logon.
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