Slow logon to desktop - winlogon ?

[Guest +Bob+]

I have a Win2KPro system that spends a long time starting up before

the desktop becomes active. That is, it puts the desktop up fairly

quickly after logon, but it takes a couple minutes before the system

is really ready for the user to interact.

 

You can see the hard drive access running wild while you wait. A check

in task manager shows that winlogon is using 25-40% of the CPU during

this time.

 

It acts like a system that lacks disk space and/or memory, but there's

10gb free on both drives and 500m main memory - that's always been

plenty in my other win2K systems. Swap files are 766/2048. The main

memory has around 300m used while it's doing the slow log on.

 

There are only a few programs starting up (AVG, ZA firewall, K9) and

they don't appear to be using any CPU time at all while I wait... it's

all going to winlogon. There's no AD on the network, logons are simple

local logons with two network drives being hooked up to a server via

matching user/pass on the server (no user interaction at logon).

 

Any idea what I should look at? I do have the improved process mgmt

tool that I could install to get a better idea of what is using the

time (assuming I know what to look for and can interpret it :-)

 

Thanks,

[Guest Frank Booth Snr]

Re: Slow logon to desktop - winlogon ?

 

+Bob+ wrote:

> I have a Win2KPro system that spends a long time starting up before

> the desktop becomes active. That is, it puts the desktop up fairly

> quickly after logon, but it takes a couple minutes before the system

> is really ready for the user to interact.

>

> You can see the hard drive access running wild while you wait. A check

> in task manager shows that winlogon is using 25-40% of the CPU during

> this time.

>

> It acts like a system that lacks disk space and/or memory, but there's

> 10gb free on both drives and 500m main memory - that's always been

> plenty in my other win2K systems. Swap files are 766/2048. The main

> memory has around 300m used while it's doing the slow log on.

>

> There are only a few programs starting up (AVG, ZA firewall, K9) and

> they don't appear to be using any CPU time at all while I wait... it's

> all going to winlogon. There's no AD on the network, logons are simple

> local logons with two network drives being hooked up to a server via

> matching user/pass on the server (no user interaction at logon).

>

> Any idea what I should look at? I do have the improved process mgmt

> tool that I could install to get a better idea of what is using the

> time (assuming I know what to look for and can interpret it :-)

>

 

There are a number of ways of dealing with this, I would download

msconfig.exe (it is not included with Win2k). Then do what is known as a

"clean boot" to begin with.

 

Read http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310353 first

 

Although the articla describes this for WinXP it's the same procedure

for Win2k. If the pc now boots up faster then you know it has to be one

(or more) applications under the MSConfig Startup tab that is causing

the problem.

[Guest +Bob+]

Re: Slow logon to desktop - winlogon ?

 

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:44:33 +0000, Frank Booth Snr

<fbsnr@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>There are a number of ways of dealing with this, I would download

>msconfig.exe (it is not included with Win2k). Then do what is known as a

>"clean boot" to begin with.

>

>Read http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310353 first

>

>Although the articla describes this for WinXP it's the same procedure

>for Win2k. If the pc now boots up faster then you know it has to be one

>(or more) applications under the MSConfig Startup tab that is causing

>the problem.

 

Thanks, I will give that a shot and see what happens.