Profiles Loading Slow - Need help with advanced logging

[Guest Luke]

Note: Not sure where to post this, but I've also. posted under server 2003

with no response.

 

I'm using Mandatory profiles on PC's in one of my labs on Server 2003

network.

 

The profiles load very slow and I can't figure out why. I don't see

anything abnormal in the event viewer and was curious of other ways to do

some

logging.

 

When I log on, the

"Loading your personal settings" is very quick < 5 seconds

"Applying your personal setting" is the slow part >60 seconds

 

Logging off also takes significant time also.

"Logging off" >40 seconds

"Saving settings" <5 seconds

 

The reason I believe this isn't normal is because I have other PC's in

another lab that are much quicker, but were ghosted from a different image.

They load much quicker.

 

Any ideas on a place to look or how I can perform a more detailed log to see

why it's taking so long.

 

Thanks for any help.

Luke Tomsha

[Guest Philipp Ott, Wien]

RE: Profiles Loading Slow - Need help with advanced logging

 

Hi!

 

I m sorry I dont know how to enable such logging myself.

 

But we have seen similar problems and one trick to speed up login was to

clean up the profiles. We use http://www.ccleaner.com for this.

 

Also when people use local outlook storages and they grow login and logout

takes longer. Changing to exchange accounts and removing any local storages

speeded up login as well.

 

Aside from this make sure with netdiag and dcdiag that DNS and ADS run

smooth and that there are no problems reported in any event log. I remember

one time login took also very long because one DC's sysvol was corrupted and

replication didnt work properly. However, the domain was working, just slow.

Once we saw this and corrected the problem suddenly many network operations

(as well as login) speeded up.

 

Regards