Loading Personal Settings (WXP-Pro)

[Michael_IRS]

Logging on seems to take forever as I wait for my personal settings to load (like 3 mins or more). Would deleting my account and re-establishing it solve this problem?

[josefz]

Alone or netted computer? What net clients?

[Michael_IRS]

I am running XP Professional as my home OS. Have three other accounts (wife, son, daughter) as well as myself. Does that make a difference?

[josefz]

You didn't understand me. If you are running only one computer (not connected by network adapter to an another comp.), but have a network adapter, then you may try disable all network capabilities of your OS, and even disable your network adapter in BIOS (if any).

An appreciable delay may occur due to (through fault) your OS seeks for non-existing contact on available device.

[Dfyant]

This utility should fix that. Just install and reboot, you don't have to run anything as the program runs like a service on the PC. Details about what it does are on the website too.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1b286e6d-8912-4e18-b570-42470e2f3582&displaylang=en#filelist

...least microsoft can do SOMETHING right ;)

Regards,

Chris

..if it ain't broke, I'm determined to fix it..

[Michael_IRS]

Ok but this article deals with profiles that wont unload not ones that take forever to load.

[Dfyant]

It works for both, trust me - I had a profile that wouldn't load and my colleague had a profile that would give him a blank screen - this app fixed that.

Regards,

Chris

..if it ain't broke, I'm determined to fix it..

[Michael_IRS]

Ok did as you suggested, it now loads as a service, but made no difference. Again back to my original post. If I delete my account and create a new one would this solve the problem. So far no has said if this would work or not.

[Booter]

Deleting your account and creating a new one MAY solve your problem. May not. Depends on where the slowdown is caused, and how you create the new user account.

Do the (wife, son, daughter) also have the same problem? If not, you may be loading startup programs that they are not. To study what is starting up that is unique to you as a user, you might look here:

C:\Documents and Settings\(your user name)\Start Menu\Programs

I just realized, you're on XP-Pro and I'm on XP-Home, might be different. Anyway, there is a list of startups unique to you. You might be surprised to find out what is starting up when you log on, and you may find that removing unneccessary ones will speed up your log on process. If you remove them, do it in such a way that you can restore them if you have to. You might create a "Backup of Startups" folder in My Documents somewhere, and Cut (from your startups folder) and paste (into your backups folder), then try logging on again to see if improvements were made.

If this doesn't help, we can look at other things. If you create a new user, and copy all your current parameters to the new user account, it probably will work the same as your current user account.

Bruce

[Michael_IRS]

I have been through the startup folder with a fine toothed comb as well as using the msconfig to see what else is being started. Everything is pared down to the minimum, and yesterday when I timed how long it was taking for my account to log on it was around 10 minutes. The display "loading your personal settings" lasted about 9 minutes and the rest was the normal startup messages typically seen. I do have to say my account is the admin account, if that accounts for anything.
I did create a new account (admin) and logged on using that to see if there was anything different. That speed was typical of the rest of the accounts, like maybe a minute or less.
Is there anything that you know of that would re-set XP back to default settings (like the XP repair)?

[Booter]

It was a thought. I'm glad to find that your new admin account logs on more normally, but I'm at a loss to explain why. Someone else will have to jump in here on your last question. Doing an XP Repair is a process I'm not familiar with.

Bruce

[Booter]

Followup: You might look here to see if it applies:

<a target="_blank" href=http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315270>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315270</a>

Bruce

[Dfyant]

Login as the Administrator and navigate to your user account ( c:\documents and settings\&lt;yourname&gt;\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows and rename the file call "userclass.dat" to "userclass.old". If you get an error telling you that you can't rename it, the file is in use - that's your problem.
Reboot your computer, logon as administrator and try again. Once you have successfully renamed it, try and log on as yourself.

Regards,
Chris

..if it ain't broke, I'm determined to fix it..

[Michael_IRS]

Thanks will certainly give that a try, short of drop kicking it out the window

[Michael_IRS]

Have renamed userclass files to old; have downloaded and installed the 'fix' from MS regarding profiles hives, all to no avail. It still takes about 5-10 minutes to load my personal settings. Any other suggestions?

[Dfyant]

This is only your account right? Sorry for the delay in getting back to you - have been a little busy with work.

Regards,

Chris

..if it ain't broke, I'm determined to fix it..

[imlbob]

I had the same problem: Long delay or pause when "loading your personal settings" or "applying your personal settings" This is what fixed it for me:

Open your network connections, click Advanced, Advanced settings. Click the provider order tab. Under network providers 'Microsoft Terminal Services' was the first option (this does not appear with W2K). I moved this to the bottom and the problem has gone away.

I found this solution at http://www.adminlife.com/247reference/msgs/21/106421.aspx