Windows 7 very slow logon, Waiting for the User Profile Service,  winlogon event 6006
Hello, Every so often one of our Windows 7 clients which is not normally having any delay at logon will take a very long time to login. This may be 10 or 20 minutes or up to an hour in some cases. Typically the event log will contain entries like The winlogon notification subscriber <Profiles> took 572 second(s) to handle the notification event (Logon). There is no further information available from Event Log Online Help, nor any additional detail as to why the logon event was so slow. During the delay the user will just see "Waiting for the User Profile Service" on their screen. We first started seeing this problem with Windows Vista and if anything the situation has not improved since then. It has never happened with any of our Windows XP users. We are currently planning a migration of computers to Windows 7 but stuff like this which has not been resolved in Windows over a 2 year period will stall that migration. The least improvement is to increase the event notification to give a lot more information on why the user profile processing has stalled.
June 16th, 2010 6:41pm

Hi, When did the issue begin to occur? Did it occur after installing certain application or applying certain policy? To troubleshoot the issue, please perform the following step. 1. Restart the machine in Safe Mode with Networking to check whether the system can login quicker. 2. Type “gpedit.msc” in Search box and press Enter. Navigate to the following location: Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates->System->Logon Please double click “Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon” policy and disable it. 3. Perform a Clean Boot to check the result. Thanks, Novak
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June 17th, 2010 1:47am

Hi, follow my guide here to make a boot trace [1] and compress the boot_BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER_1.etl as 7z or RAR and upload it to your Skydrive [2] and post the link here. I take a look at the trace, maybe I see what's wrong with your Windows. regards André [1] http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=140247 [2] http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/4fc10639-02db-4665-993a-08d865088d65"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/
June 17th, 2010 10:53am

Hi, I am having the same issue with alot of computers on our domain, pretty much any computer outside our central office can take from 1-30 minutes to load the users profile. We have this issue even after a computer has been freshly imaged. I wanted to know if you disable "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon", will it affect group policy? If so, its not really a fix. Is there any other fix? Thanks
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July 19th, 2011 9:11pm

Dave - I have the same issue when I enable Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon....when I am outside the network and am connected to cable the please wait sits there forever....I remove the cable connection and make sure wireless is off and it goes directly to the control-alt-delete. On the work network it boots up just fine...no delay. When I set it to not configured the PC logs in great on and off the network...no issues other then the group policy settings not being applied. Haven't found a solution but if you have that would be great.Help
September 9th, 2011 4:52pm

I have the same issue as well. All machines when removed from the domian take a long time to get past the welcome screen. (2-5 min) Verbose mode indicates that it is the user profile service. I beleive it is searching for the domain and waiting for a time out before loading the profile. It seems there should be a setting somewhere to control this behavior however I have yet to find it either in GPO or the registry. I have disabled the "Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon", This didn't seem to have any effect on the situation at all. All machines have a jpeg. background so no it is not a solid color issue. I am on a SBS2011 domain. Any help troubleshooting this issue is greatly appreciated. -Brian
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September 23rd, 2011 11:49am

Same problem here, worse on some sites than other. Stumbled across it being the home drive mapping in the user profile in AD. Still trying to work out why this is. Will post if do find the reason, probably some DNS thing I guess.
October 20th, 2011 4:46am

Ok not sure but wanted to share these GP settings we use. So far so good in our environment. These are the only options set Computer Configuration>Admin Templates>System>Logon>Dont display the getting started welcome screen at logon - Enabled Computer Configuration>Admin Templates>System>Scripts>Maximum wait time for GP scripts - Enabled - 30 Computer Configuration>Admin Templates>System>Scripts> Run logon scripts synchronously - Disabled Computer Configuration>Admin Templates>System>Group Policy>Startup policy processing wait time - 10 Not sure if this helps....but just wanted to share since things seem to be as that where with XP now....finally. Help
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October 20th, 2011 2:36pm

Hi! Ive noticed that if you are running folder redirection and have disabled the automatic creation of an offline copy Windows will take forever to logon. So a tip would be to check and see if offline folders are disabled. (I would normally disable this for WinXp machines as I really dont like the offline feature in XP but in 7 its rather decent).
April 2nd, 2012 3:00am

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