Slow login

[FrizzleFry]

I was getting the 30 second Welcome screen also.

I do use a solid color background so I tried it with a background picture and the delay is mostly gone.

Googling around I found this MSKB:

The Welcome screen may be displayed for 30 seconds during the logon process after you set a solid color as the desktop background in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2

The workaround section in the kb article provides a reg tweak to really reduce the delay. I had to add the DelayedDesktopSwitchTimeout value as a dword. BTW, if you set the value to 0 the welcome screen will just flash by.

 

[Andersson]

Thank you very much for the tip. The key location is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\
DelayedDesktopSwitchTimeout


You can also set th value below to 1 if you logon to a domain. Default is 30.
gpedit.msc
Local Computer Policy/Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System/User Profiles
"Set maximum wait time for the network if a user has a roaming...."

 

[tbdarkspirit]

Hello,

I have a quite same issue. But all tips I have found don't fix it!

I have tried :

- set a jpg image as background
- install KB977346
- Local Computer Policy/Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System/User Profiles "Set maximum wait time for the network if a user has a roaming...."to 0
- add a the dword key DelayedDesktopSwitchTimeout set at 5 (works, I have a black screen instead of the welcome screen during 30 second.... fine! xD)

Finaly I have test a boot in safe mode and : Theire is NO ISSUE in safe mode!

Then I test a clean boot, but same issue... 30sec in the welcome screen !

All my drivers are updated

Any ideas?

PS : sorry for my bad english! I usually speak in french...

edit :

New information : I haven't this problem when I'm booting with the guest account!
Thus I think that my probel is due to something with the admin account! But what??
I specify that it's a fresh install...

 

[Andersson]

If you set the value to 0 on setting below it means 30, i think, set it to 1 and try.

Local Computer Policy/Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System/User Profiles
"Set maximum wait time for the network if a user has a roaming...."

 

[tbdarkspirit]

Hello Andersson,

Thx to answer me.

I have tried with 1 and it change nothing to me...

 

[hantms]

I can confirm this issue is still not solved. And it's not 30 seconds either, I'm staring at "Welcome" for a full 3-4 minutes after entering my password.

It's somewhat faster when I'm on the company network, but still unacceptably long. When I'm not on the company network it's completely ridiculous, so I just stopped logging in with my username and now log in on a local account. That of course leads to other hassles.

I really wonder when this can be fixed. I never had this problem when using XP, which I still miss dearly.

 

[centrehelpdesk]

Hey guys

I was having the same problem with Laptops in my domain, I disabled offline file synch and straight away the login time went from about 10 minutes to 30 seconds!

Are now using Windows Sync Toy.

 

[7guru]

Morning Folks. I've been trying to solve this issue for awhile now. It affects mostly laptops users because of "site switching".... Home, work, public areas, different LAN and Wi-Fi networks.

It seems to be affecting Domain computers only.. The solution I found was to reset your domain password (Either from Machine or AD) and reboot. Your login should now be back to normal.

I have a feeling that the local cached credentials get "out of sync" and takes longer than usual to log on.

This fix has been applied 4 times to my users computers and it seemed to fix the problem.

I'd like to hear feedback if this fixed your issue.

 

[WadeM]

I've just had the same slow welcome screen on my admin account. For me it was an unavailable network drive. I've simply disconnected the drive and the login has dropped from 30ish seconds to almost instant

 

[GoldenGnu]

First of I'm sorry for posting to such an old thread - however, It was one of the first results I got when searching on Google, so I think (and hope) this information may help someone else...

I had this problem (30 sec welcome screen)
I did a clean install of windows and install the drives one at the time, then restarted.

After I installed:
Realtek Ethernet Diagnostic Utility
...I got the 30sec welcome screen again. I uninstalled it and the problem was gone, problem fixed!

Extra Info:
The version I installed was: Realtek Ethernet Diagnostic Utility v2.0.2.1 (09/08/2012) from gigabyte.com

That is all

TL : DR
Try uninstalling: Realtek Ethernet Diagnostic Utility

 

[wh747]

slow login still a problem

My apologies for addressing an old thread, but it seems to still be an ongoing concern after several years of frustrated querying by many people. And I was directed here.

I am having this exact persistent frustrating problem. Putting up a slideshow of .jpg images has not helped. Single .jpg image has not helped.

What I find amazing and off-putting is that Microsoft, even now, seems unconcerned. This is a real problem to many people, who are irritated at Microsoft every time they boot their computer. Does this not seem like an important matter to a company that would appear to benefit from users having a positive reaction to thier product, instead of this powerfully negative reminder every time they turn on their computer?

Cannot Microsoft PLEASE provide a solution to this? Doesn't seem that big a deal for reasonable programming talent to solve.

Thanks for any help. and thanks for listening.

 

[Gottfried]

Slow Login - 30 second Welcome screen

Forgive me posting to a Win7 forum for what is likely to be a Lenovo Thinkpad specific issue, but in case it helps anyone else with the 30 second Welcome wait problem, I found that for my Thinkpad 530 the fix was to turn off RapidBoot. The symptoms were curious:
I installed a 240GB mSATA and did a “factory restore” of the system using Lenovo CD’s onto the mSATA alone installed . With just the SSD in place boot times were good. Adding the 300GB HDD back into the system produced the 30 second “Welcome” delay resulting in 2 or 3x the total boot time.

Removing the HDD (empty data partitions) from the system reduced the 30 sec. wait back to about 3 seconds.
After trying every fix I could find concerning the “30 second Welcome Screen” with no success, I turned off the Rapidboot program and the wait time at “Welcome” reduced to about 4 seconds, and the time to a usable (without any inteference) desktop was much reduced (almost no waiting for delayed programs to start after the desktop screen opens).

Another piece of information - The HDD in question was just two empty partitions. Deleting the partitions removed the wait also (with the HDD installed in the system). Probably not surprising.

Hopefully anyone with a Lenovo Thinkpad installing a mSATA SSD with a HDD might find this useful. In fairness to Lenovo, Rapidboot was probably never intended to run with this configuration, but it shows how counter-productive it can be.

Laptop concerned isT530, 4GB RAM, 240GB M500 mSATA, 300GB Hitachi HDD.