Speed of loading personal settings etc

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers (More info?)

How would we know how you have configured your network. Users have gigantic files on the desktop with roaming profiles? See if Is this a roaming profile with cached and server copies.

%SystemRoot%\Debug\UserMode\Userenv.log might shed some light on it.


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"Michael Boyd" <mboyd@ddcs.qld.edu.au> wrote in message news:2a31301c46580$a9014af0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I am finally taking the plunge and decided to try and
> implement windows XP professional at the school where I
> work. I am have managed to get them to a stage where they
> are all logging in to the windows 2000 server just fine
> however, when I go to log on to the XP machine it takes
> about 3 to 4 minutes to actual go through the login
> process:-
> During this time a sub window displays:-
> "loading your personal settings"
> then
> "applying you personal settings"
> Everything seems to be working once I have logged in but
> is there some way of speeding up the actual login process.
>
> Thanks