Applying your personal settings

[ChuckG]

I'm having a problem with a notebook running XP Pro.

It has been logging onto the network fine for the past month (since XP was installed) but as of Monday, when
you attempt to logon to a domain account it gets to the
Applying your personal settings box, and sits there for
something like 10 mintues or so.

If I shut down and attempt to log on as the local Administrator account, it just logs on quick as a flash.

I've attempted to log onto the system with multiple domain accounts and had the same issue.

I found a knowledgebase article on microsoft's website about "System hangs at Applying your personal settings" and that they had a hotfix for it, which I obtained and applied. Still not working correctly.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
ChuckG

PS This is logging into an NT4 domain, and I have probably another 10-15 XP Pro systems logging in, without this issue.

 

[TechTJ]

I noticed that if I reduce the number of hosts on the subnet mask it would speed up. It worked for a couple of days, then my system went back to the same 'crawling' speed loading machine settings and loading personal settings....

 

[TechTJ]

Hey, check this article on technet 329457. There seems to be a bug in Windows XP and the fix is only provided from Product Support. I got it but it didn't do a thing on my system. You can try and hopefully it will fix it for you.

Let me know how it goes

 

[ShakinBacon]

I'm having this exact same problem. I've also called Microsoft and applied the patch to no avail. Does anyone know what to do?

 

[YELDIREN]

Hi!
I am suffering with the exactly same problem!
Did you find a solution?
Could you please help me for this stupid logon issue??

thanks

baris
yeldiren0@yahoo.com

 

[bcastner]

I provided a possible solution in another thread.

thread779-540080

 

[mtjake]

I looked in the event viewer and found that there was an error saying that windows couldn't find the user or computer trying to logon. So I added the same user I created on the Win2000 server on the WinXP client also, and that did the trick for me.