I have multiple Windows 7 machines in my environment that are experience slow logon times. These are mostly seen after logging in, and the Welcome screen comes up, the circle spins and takes anywhere from 3-5 minutes , to sometimes 20-30 minutes. Researching this issue, I've discovered many random "fixes". - background is a solid color, so changing to picture works - changing registry settings for timeout on servers - network card driver issues My specs are as follows for all machines: - Dell 755,760, or 780 models - Win 7 32bit (images deployed from SCCM) - 2003 AD environment The NIC's on these are Intel 82567LM-3's, and Intel has a few multi-page threads on driver issues. I've gone through all of them to no avail. I've also updated the bios to the most recent version. What I am discovering however, is something that I truly feel is the issue. Looking at the event viewer, after a reboot, all of my services enter a stopped state. So, for example, after the WinLogon event is logged, showing WHEN I logged on, the next series of events are "XYZ Service has entered a stopped state". This INCLUDES my Dhcpv4 and Dhcpv6. I THEN get the NETLOGON error that says "cannot find an available logon server". Eventually, Dhcpv4 STARTS, and then I'm ok. So my question is, in Windows 7, why are all my services starting in a "stopped" state? Shouldn't they all be starting immediately after logon?

Hi ALaRose, A very common configuration error that most people would do that will cause this issue is - Misconfigured DHCP or DNS. Please make sure that all of your Windows 7 clients' DNS is configured to point to your Domain Controller, and ensure that your Domain Controller has DNS configured on it (preferably Active Directory Integrated DNS). Ping back if you need more information. Thanks!Jabez Gan [MVP] - http://www.msblog.org Contributing Author for: (Sybex) MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure Configuration Study Guide: Exam 70-643