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Slow logon to Win XP - "applying computer settings"

Asked by nzrc in Network Operations

I have an issue on our site with slow logons. It just started about 6 weeks ago but I can not understand what changed. We have roaming profiles that are cached locally so once you logon it saves to local disk. We have group policy on users groups and machine groups.

The slow logon stalls at  "Applying Computer settings... but it does get there in the end. After over 2 minutes you get the logon prompt. This pointed to DNS or group policy perhaps.

If you disable group policy it goes fast, about 30 seconds.
I have disabled our anti-virus on a PC to test and boot time is still slow with no AV.
A good fast PC takes about 30 seconds, most PC's onsite now take about 2min 20sec to get a logon prompt.

The real killer issue is if I re-image a PC with our Altiris system the newly imaged PC runs fast. So DNS is not totally broken or setup wrong. A newly imaged system applies group policy with great speed, so the group policy setup must be OK. I have tried enabling log files but no real useful information has come out of the userenv.log files.  

We have had a new Cisco 3750 10/100/1000 LAN put in about 12 weeks ago but all was well when we switched to the new system we have had several trouble free months with the new LAN. I have thought it may be a NIC speed negotiation issue but updating NIC drivers does not help.  We have Windows XP SP2 on the desktop and Windows 2003 server.  Any ideas on what can be slowing down the time to get a logon prompt?
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