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by morning_sun

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I am using Windows XP PRof. SP2 (non-networked) with Fast user switching active. Frequently when a user logs on from the Welcome Screen it starts loading the user (slowly) and then jumps back out to the Welcome Screen. Sometimes it takes several attempts before it actually loads a user properly.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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by m.sip

Hi, I have much the same problem. With my configuration I would expect none: Intel Core2Duo, 1GB RAM, Matrox Parhelia 128MB. Though. Swithing users takes sometimes up to 2 minutes (black screen, a lot of HDD processing). Sometimes the welcome screen reapears and I have to type my password again...

It seems to me that either Windows has bad memory switching management or there could be virus. I tried switching users on worse computers and it worked well and faster.

Is there any software analyzing utility for this?

Thanks!

P.S. I searched the net and I found that this problem is not widespread but it occurs from time to time.

by thebat

Hi, pls. check the file access rights for the Profile.
eg. cacls %userprofile%
i think you have no write rights.

cu Linus

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