01 March 2013

Windows 7 startup slowly at home

Windows 7 takes a long time to start at home


Problem

When I am not connected to the LAN at work, windows 7 takes a long time to startup while displaying "Waiting for the User Profile Service"

Solution

Thanks to Chris Buchanan, I have found the solution at http://www.chrisbuchanan.ca/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=17

What you need to do is to change the Local Group Policy setting the max. wait time for the network ... to 0

Procedure:


  1. Start  > gpedit.msc
  2. Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > User Profiles
  3. Edit the policy "Set maximum wait time for the network if a user has a roaming user profile or remote home directory" to "Enabled" and set the value Wait for network for maximum (seconds) to 0.
  4. OK
  5. Close policy editor
  6. Then force an update of the group policy (gpupdate /force) (this worked only when I was connected to the LAN at work)

Since I did this, the startup time decreased from more than 1 minute to 20 sec. on my Dell XPS 15z (Core i7) laptop.

More details can be found  at http://www.chrisbuchanan.ca/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=17


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