First, we do not use Roaming Profiles. When people bring their computers home where there is no company network, it takes approx 50-60 seconds to log on on Windows 7 laptops. This must mainly be because Windows waits for contact with the company network/domain controller. We use login scripts and other stuff so I guess there are policies trying to reach out when you log on. Are there any group policies or tweaks that can lower this long long timeout before it finally logs on using cached credentials?

Can you see if pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del twice will allow the system to not wait so long?John

can you please explain a little more? what is the purpose of that and what will it cancel? If it solves anything, I can obviously not inform every user in the company about this

hello I found a solution to this problem. In my case the long connection time when out of office is due to the login script defined in the user profile on the server. the solution I use : I disable the script on the user profile and I use local policy "Administrative Templates\System\Logon\run this programs at user logon" to specify it this way : \\the_server\netlogon\the_script ps : sorry for my poor english ;)