Re: WinXP slow to logon to Win2000 Domain Controller

From: Steve Parry (k100rs_1990_at_hotmail.nospam.com)
Date: 05/06/03 

Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 12:03:39 +0100

Slow logon to domain in XP Pro

You may experience extremely long delays (up to 5 minutes) when logging into domains using Windows
XP Pro. This is caused by the asynchronous loading of networking during the boot up process. This
speeds up the login process in a stand-alone workstation by allowing the user to log in with cached
logon credentials before the network is fully ready.

To disable this "feature" and restore your domain logons to their normal speed,

goto
Start
Run
type
gpedit.msc

<Group Policy window opens>

Computer Configuration
Administrative Templates
System
Logon
change "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon" to ENABLED.

This can be fed to clients via a group policy from a Windows 2000 server by upgrading the standard
policy template with the XP policy template. Since this is an XP only command, non-XP systems will
ignore it in a domain distributed group policy. 

-- 
Steve Parry BA(Hons) MCP MVP
http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

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