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Network PCs are taking ages to startup and log in.

Hi

We have Windows 2012 DCs and XP and windows 7
We are having network problems this morning the PCs are not logging in quickly .

When the client PCs are started it says : Applying computer settings ( takes ages)
and after this it says: Running startup scripts( This also takes ages)
After this I get the login window and the desktop is completely blank and it takes ages to load the desktop icons.

I saw the events in the event viewer and I saw the below error and not sure if this error is related to this problem.

The DNS server was unable to create a resource record for 74a652ac-fcb0-4253-980d-137942c84944._msdcs.domain.local. in zone domain.local. The Active Directory definition of this resource record is corrupt or contains an invalid DNS name. The event data contains the error.

Logon Name:DNS Server
Source: DNS-server service
Event :4010

Any help to trouble shoot will be really helpful.

Many thanks

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lianne143

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This problem has started only today nothing was changed in the past.
I restarted the DNS server service on the DC. The clients are getting the right DNS settings when I do IP Config.

On the client PC I can see running startup scripts taking ages and I get a dos window and on the dos tab it says C:\windows\system32\xcopy.exe and then goes to the CNTRL+ALT DEL screen

After I login when I open my computer , cant see any mapped drives.

I then noticed one of our file server was frozen.

One of the drives from this gets mapped to every user.

After restarting the file server logins were working as normal.