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What happens during the "Loading Your Personal Settings" and "Applying Your Personal Settings"?

Does anybody know exactly what's happening during the "Loading Your Personal Settings" and "Applying Your Personal Settings" stages? This applies to Windows XP Pro. Any idea where I can find technical reading material on the log on process?

Guess I'll start here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457123.aspx
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After reading forums and many tech articles, still trying to figure out why "Applying your personal settings" takes two minutes per user, per workstation, so... I thought I should find out specifically what happens during these two stages.
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According to this website, http://blogs.technet.com/richard_macdonald/archive/2007/03/26/706879.aspx

"Loading your personal settings..." load the user's profile.

"Applying your personal settings..." processes and applies any Group Policies specific to this user.

I think I'll try enabling verbose logging on a test workstation to see if it provides any helpful info.

How to enable verbose startup, shutdown, logon, and logoff status Messages in the Windows Server 2003 family:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325376
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Turns out the slow log on issue had to do with three poorly ordered DNS entries on client's TCP/IP Properties. Our inside DNS server's entry (10.0.0.1) was at the bottom of the DNS entries list when it should have been wither first or simply by itself.