We are currently using Windows 2003 for Domain Controller. I have a user with a Desktop running Windows 7 Pro x64 and for the past few weeks the user is having interminent problems when logging to PC/domain. The user has many icons on the desktop screen such few excel and word files and applications shortcuts and is using a custom background picture (family). Sometimes when the user login to windows 1) it takes a long time for windows to load the screen gets stuck on Welcome for 5 minutes or more 2) when windows finally load the background picture is black and the desktop only shows basic icons and none of the users other icons appear 3) for some reason initially the computer is very slow even the desktop has 12 GB of memory and it is an engineering desktop with quad processor The strang this if the user restarts the computer and login again to Windows everything goes back to normal and his backgroun picture appears along with his icons and other shortcuts (no more black desktop screen). Not sure why this problem is happening since on our domain controller I don't see any loggin errors for the user...etc. I did notice that the user has a 5.7 GB profile size on the Windows 7 PC when looking under User Profiles>Settings. Thanks in advance for your assitance. J

Hi, If this issue did not occur before, please try system restore to get back to a previous time point which everything worked fine. If this issue still persists, please kindly disable the following steps: 1. Go to Start, type Group Policy in the Search Box and then click Edit group policy. 2. Expand the following item from the left pane: Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Logon 3. Double click "Always wait for network at computer startup and logon" setting on the right pane, choose Disable and then click OK. 4. Exit Group Policy Editor and check the result. Also, I suggest you refer to the following links: Logon delays occur over a slow connection if opportunistic locking is not granted for the policy file in Windows Slow logon for roaming profile users on client computers that are running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Hope it helps. Alex ZhaoPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.