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Fatwah on Western Digital
Today I noticed that my WinXP lab machines need something very close to four minutes to go from login prompt to clean desktop.. and the only startup programs worth notice are Office Fast Start and NAV8. Switched 100Mbit LAN, XP2100s.
Turned off all group policy processing on a client and on the server (i.e. AD isn't even sending out default settings). That took a whopping 20 seconds off login processing.
I thought: "Hm. That's odd. I'll try it at home where I have a non-sucking network infrastructure (Intel Pro100s to Catalyst 5005 over cat5e) and faster client hardware (XP2200)."
Almost the same thing. A little bit more than 3 minutes to log in after the normal XP boot process. DHCP? Nope. Static IP didn't appreciably change login time.
WTF?
Turned off all group policy processing on a client and on the server (i.e. AD isn't even sending out default settings). That took a whopping 20 seconds off login processing.
I thought: "Hm. That's odd. I'll try it at home where I have a non-sucking network infrastructure (Intel Pro100s to Catalyst 5005 over cat5e) and faster client hardware (XP2200)."
Almost the same thing. A little bit more than 3 minutes to log in after the normal XP boot process. DHCP? Nope. Static IP didn't appreciably change login time.
WTF?