Slow login

[makubex]

Hello

Some of you may remember me from my slow login-to-profile problem on a stripped version of Windows 7.

I took the advice that was offered to me and reinstalled Windows (clean install) from the Technet ISO.

I still have the slow login problem after the reinstall too! I mean whoever heard of the "Welcome" screen staring back at you for ~30 secs, then taking you to your desktop! Outrageous I say!!

That's what I'm going through.
I've only kept an antivirus on startup for Pete's sake!

NOW I'm truly baffled, what's wrong?

 

[Delphin]

Perform a clean boot and post back the results

 

[Tews]

And please fill out your system specs so we know what were dealing with..

 

[TGSoldier]

Depending on the antivirus you're using.. it could take long..

Some AV's just suck like that

 

[tburkins]

I have the same slow login on two computers with Windows 7 RTM. One is a dual core Dell Latitude D620 laptop with 3 GB RAM and 128 GB SSD. The other is a quad core Dell desktop with 6 GB of RAM. The peculiar thing about my problem is that it always takes 30 seconds for the Welcome screen to disappear regardless of the computer. Also, on the laptop, I have the Pandora gadget installed and it will start playing music about 12-15 seconds after I have entered the password but it still takes the full 30 seconds before the Welcome screen goes away. It is as if the Welcome screen is waiting for something to happen before it shows the desktop and it times out after 30 seconds.


On the desktop, it has happened under the following installation sequences (I've started from scratch reinstalling Win7 several times):

• Fresh install of Win7, join to domain, setup domain account as a local admin, install Office 2007 Pro from domain account
• Fresh install of Win7, install Office 2007 Pro as local admin, join to domain, setup domain account as a local admin, restore settings from Win7 RC using Windows Easy Transfer

It is also worth pointing out that this problem only affects my domain account and not other domain accounts or the local admin account. In both of the above scenarios, it was after the last action that the slow login problem started. I have also tried my domain account on a coworker's laptop running Win7 RTM and I did not have any problems, so it doesn't seem to be an issue with my domain account. I don't have a login script and I am not using roaming profiles.

Any ideas or things to try would be appreciated.

 

[thedosbox]

http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/6424-slow-log-win-7-a-3.html#post252104

Switching from a solid colour to a JPG as the desktop background dramatically improved login times for me.

 

[dmiannay]

Problem Solved for Me!

The tip from thedosbox did the trick for me. There's no doubt that using a solid color as the background cripples the login process. Since I prefer a black background I created a 1920x1200 JPG image in Photoshop and all is well.

Thanks again for the tip!
Doug

 

[winhell]

I've registered just to thanks thedosbox and dmiannay. Worked for me as well.
Regards,
Winhell.

 

[tburkins]

This solved my problem as well. I verified it on both Win7 computers that I have been using. Thanks thedosbox.

 

[jmeetze]

I'm having this issue as well except mine only does it when I'm undocked with my laptop. When I press CTRL, ALT, DEL, to enter my credentials, sometims it takes up to 5 minutes before I get logged in. Again, this only happens while I am undocked. I'm running a clean install of Windows 7 RTM. Anyone else having this issue or have any ideas?

 

[winhell]

Logon problems

I'm not sure, but when my computer is not connected to the network the logon is slower.
When you undock your computer is possible to keep the wireless connection working?

 

[jmeetze]

My wireless connection is working. Actually I almost was of the mindset that that or the LAN connection was causing my issue so I even tried disabling both to see if that solved it, but I'm still having the issue. It's weird, some days it boots fine, others take longer. It just sits on the page with the Windows 7 wallpaper. Sometimes when I press ctrl alt del, my logon screen reapears and I retype my password and it logs me in, but I never receive a message to press ctrl alt del.

 

[winhell]

What really made difference for me was replacing the “no wallpaper” (solid color) for some picture.
Sometimes the logon process takes more time because something is accessing the hard disk, but I am not sure if this could be the AV, or the MS search or the MS update and so on.
I think my system has some hw issues (DELL Vostro 1500), because I’ve got some BSODs even replacing some of the drivers for newest ones.
Anyway, have you tried to update your drivers manually, looking for updates on manufacturers’ sites?

 

[GrandmasterPhil]

there are two issues here

One is the wallpaper, but those who are having issues when joined to a Windows domain are experiencing a group policy issue.

Edit your local group policy, and modify the Computer Configuration - Administrative Templates - System - Group Policy - Startup policy processing wait time. The default is 30 seconds, which means your computer is sitting for 30 seconds waiting for the domain before logging you in. Change it to 1.

GrandmasterPhil

 

[jmeetze]

I don't think changing the Local Group Policy is the issue. That's just 30 seconds and my laptop is taking way longer than that to logon. I'm like thinking it's a driver as well because I do notice it trying to access the hard drive or no hard drive activity at some instances.

 

[hanseric]

Login taking several minutes

My wife's Asus notebook is taking several minutes to login from welcome screen. Last time this happened I had to reboot and it's looking that way now as well.

Already have a .jpg for desktop background so that didn't seem to fix.

This is a brand new machine running Win 7 Home Premium edition.

Am not that familiar with this OS and its inner workings so please, in giving suggestions, describe suggestions as clearly as possible.

Many thanks!

Hans

 

[GrzMky]

Slow Login due to Desktop Background

I had about a 30 second (revolutions of the round former hourglass) delay after login with the default blue desktop background. Changing it to anything else with a jpg image reduced this to about 3 seconds. All the library desktops are rather gaudy IMHO and I just wanted blank blue. So I took a small jpeg image and inserted it into a large blank blue image using a graphics editor and used this for the desktop background. Works fine.

I suspect that to save memory the blank screens are generated by algorithm initially and that perhaps there is a subtle error in there.

Good luck, GrzMky

 

[Andersson]

Background

Hello
I have the same problem, slow login around 1minute, logging in to samba domain.

Witch background are you talking about?
is it
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background
OEMBackground (C:\Windows\System32\oobe\something)

or witch background to replace?

Thanks.

 

[GrzMky]

Desktop Background

For some reason, a solid color desktop background seems to cause a login delay of about 30 seconds. My thanks to TheDosBox for first noting this. This is different then any network connection delay. Desktop background can be set thru Control Panel - Appearances or something like that. There are by default a number of solid as well as artsy patterns available. Of course you can easily make your own, save it, and then set it as your desktop background. I would think that any graphics editor could make a blank i.e. solid jpg image file of any color that would work. Good luck.

 

[Andersson]

slow login

hello
changed desktop to background as suggested but with no success.

My login(to samba domain) still taskes 50 seconds whilest in xp 3-4 seconds....