Win 7 - “Please Wait for the Group Policy Client” Hang on Boot

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Recently, it's been taking longer to get booted with Windows 7. Before my user account is displayed on boot, it hangs with “Please Wait” (circle icon doesn't spin). I did the verbose option and narrowed it down to “Please Wait for the Group Policy Client”. After a while, it finally continues to user account sign in. It's nearly doubled my boot time. Any suggestions for a solution?

I'm not on a group network, no idea what caused this issue to start. Tried making a new user account, system restores, msconfig, some registry tips I found online, disabled NLA, etc. Nothing worked. Boot repair option found no problem worth repairing. Boots as it should in safe mode, though.

Any help appreciated. Thanks

System:
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
i7-2600K
128GB SSD
16GB RAM
GTX 560 Ti
 
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corroded
This may or may not help... Do you have CCleaner ? It can clean up temp/trash files, always good for flushing out malware sources, and a Registry cleaner.

I'd get it and run both the Cleaner part AND the Registry parts and flush out old entries. run both the Clean and the Registry until it returns 0 items to clean

Also clean up the Startup (in the tools tab) of everything except AV, Disable NOT delete entries.

Restart and...?

Like I said, it may or may not help with this, it will help in general at the very least. I will keep looking for alternatives as well
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I am not finding anything except references to DNS issues. just for the heck of it, unplug your network cable from the system before booting up. What happens?

IF it boots up without the error then you have an issue with the networking/domain authentication setup. We can got from there once you test..
 
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Thanks for the response. Unplugged, same issue with boot times. Still not sure what the trouble is. Most of my Googling led me to large network situations, which isn't the case here...
 
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Not sure exactly what I should be looking for in event viewer. Any recommendations? I appear to get "The ScRegSetValueExW call failed for FailureActions with the following error: Access is denied." on startup. Thanks
 
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This may or may not help... Do you have CCleaner ? It can clean up temp/trash files, always good for flushing out malware sources, and a Registry cleaner.

I'd get it and run both the Cleaner part AND the Registry parts and flush out old entries. run both the Clean and the Registry until it returns 0 items to clean

Also clean up the Startup (in the tools tab) of everything except AV, Disable NOT delete entries.

Restart and...?

Like I said, it may or may not help with this, it will help in general at the very least. I will keep looking for alternatives as well
 
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Thanks, corroded. CCleaner seemed to take care of the boot hang. Did a few reboots and it did hang once for another issue (didn't write the message down), but I think that was unrelated. Guess it had been a while since I'd run CCleaner. Also interesting, the Win 7 boot sound did not play while I was getting the "please wait" issue. It has suddenly returned.

Thanks again for looking into this!
 
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Corroded, I've tried the Microsoft fix and network was already on public. Still no luck. No sharing setup, either. I uninstalled AVG and it booted fine, so I switched to Avast and the issue is back. Could antivirus be changing how my group policy works? Thanks
 
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At this point we have tried most of the tricks I know to get the systems to talk.

How about this. You mentioned a Media Server, this is essentially a NAS. Can each computer access it? Read and Write permissions? Use it as a common location instead of directly between PC's. If you wanted from there you could use SynBack Free to keep the systems files in Sync automatically. Just a though.
 
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Hi corroded, I do not have a Media Server. Just a single computer, no network. Still having this issue, though. CCleaner seems to fix the problem for one reboot and then it's back to Group Policy hang.
 
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