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.

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

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/