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Do you use roaming profile?<br />
The roaming profile machine need sync profile to AD server.<br />
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Also, please check the logs in Event Viewer, please find what's happend and logged there.<br />
And please confirm that you run startup/shutdown script or not?
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Do you use roaming profile?
The roaming profile machine need sync profile to AD server.

Also, please check the logs in Event Viewer, please find what's happend and logged there.
And please confirm that you run startup/shutdown script or not?

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No roaming profiles and all scripts have been removed.I dont see anything in event viewer that related to this issue. Is there something specific I need to look for?
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No roaming profiles and all scripts have been removed.I dont see anything in event viewer that related to this issue. Is there something specific I need to look for?

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We have Windows 2008 with Win 7 clients. We are getting machines stuck at the Welcome screen. I enabled Verbose logging on my machine and a new laptop I am configuring since I received the welcome screen on it. Verbose logging shows detailed information during the logon on/log off instead of just &quot;welcoming&quot; or &quot;shutting down&quot;. I finally got the laptop to get stuck on logon screen after rebooting about 10 times. <br />
It shows to be stuck at the Applying group policy local users and groups policy. It has been at that screen for about 45mins.<br />
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We have many policies out there. Can someone assist on how to troubleshoot this issue?
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We have Windows 2008 with Win 7 clients. We are getting machines stuck at the Welcome screen. I enabled Verbose logging on my machine and a new laptop I am configuring since I received the welcome screen on it. Verbose logging shows detailed information during the logon on/log off instead of just "welcoming" or "shutting down". I finally got the laptop to get stuck on logon screen after rebooting about 10 times. 
It shows to be stuck at the Applying group policy local users and groups policy. It has been at that screen for about 45mins.

We have many policies out there. Can someone assist on how to troubleshoot this issue?

Welcome screen stuck

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