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"Jim De Vico" wrote:

> "Jim De Vico" wrote:
>
> > I have Vista Business installed on my Dell Core 2 Duo laptop. I bought the
> > laptop a few weeks after Vista was launched and had it preinstalled.
> >
> > My laptop is part of a business network and I hadn't had this problem until
> > just a couple of weeks ago.
> >
> > When I log into my laptop from anywhere not connected to my business
> > network, it boots rather quickly.
> >
> > When I have it connected to my business network and log in, the log in takes
> > 10 minutes. It's an exact 10 minutes so this tells me that something is set
> > to time out after 10 minutes. From what I can see in the event logs it
> > appears this is the culprit.
> > -----------------------
> > Log Name: Application
> > Source: Microsoft-Windows-Winlogon
> > Date: 4/25/2007 8:38:57 AM
> > Event ID: 6006
> > Task Category: None
> > Level: Warning
> > Keywords: Classic
> > User: N/A
> > Computer: JimDLaptop.DOMAIN.com
> > Description:
> > The winlogon notification subscriber <GPClient> took 599 second(s) to handle
> > the notification event (StartShell).
> > Event Xml:
> > <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
> > <System>
> > <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Winlogon"
> > Guid="{DBE9B383-7CF3-4331-91CC-A3CB16A3B538}" EventSourceName="Wlclntfy" />
> > <EventID Qualifiers="32768">6006</EventID>
> > <Version>0</Version>
> > <Level>3</Level>
> > <Task>0</Task>
> > <Opcode>0</Opcode>
> > <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
> > <TimeCreated SystemTime="2007-04-25T15:38:57.000Z" />
> > <EventRecordID>5520</EventRecordID>
> > <Correlation />
> > <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
> > <Channel>Application</Channel>
> > <Computer>JimDLaptop.DOMAIN.com</Computer>
> > <Security />
> > </System>
> > <EventData>
> > <Data>GPClient</Data>
> > <Data>599</Data>
> > <Data>StartShell</Data>
> > <Binary>04000000</Binary>
> > </EventData>
> > </Event>
> > -----------------------
> >
> > In case it matters our AD servers are running Windows 2000.
>
> Sorry for not asking a question but does anyone know why Vista is taking
> this 10 minutes to log in and how I can fix it?
>

I'm betting your DNS isn't set correctly. It should point to the DNS server
on the domain you connect to at work. if not it will have to wait for the
timeout before it searches and eventually finds your domain controller.


> Thanks.
>
> Jim