Hi All, My sister has a laptop, and i have a laptop, both are connected to a domain at school (we both attend different schools thus different domains). When i shut my laptop down at school and come home, boot the machine up an then logon (still with the domain selected not the "this computer" option and with the wireless network on and connected to our home wireless) the logon sits there for about 1 min then jumps straight into windows no problems and operates without any hangs when i browse the home network or use the internet. My sisters laptop however sits there for over 10 minutes with her domain selected and her wireless on and then takes ages at the applying settings stage of logon (even thought the hard drive is not actually "thinking") then when it gets into windows it is very slow, you cannot even browse the network becasue it is just to slow and even opening my documents takes forver or even my computer or an internet explorer window. If you turn the wireless off the computers work just fine with no problems and the speed increases dramatically. I just wanted to understand why thsi takes forever when my laptop does not and they have pratically the same software and network setup on them. Any ideas?? Thanks Heaps in advance for any clues...

When not in the domain, you can indeed start the laptop up in the domain settings, because this is still in the laptop's memory. Yet I wouldn't do that if I was you. It could make you computer try to reach the Domain Controller while you are too far away. Since both of you have a diffirent domain, the Domain Controller could be diffirent en the way to log on too. Let your sis try to starup the laptop at home via the This Computer setting instead of the domain. Gender doesn't matter in the Computing world. Commom sence does. Don't forget that.

Selecting this computer will help it for sure.

Hi - if i change the settings to "this computer" as the logon then the user account settings are all different and she cannot access her my documents folder and all the settings are different. Thanks though.

Set the documents in Shared Documents instead of My Documents. Then you can always reach it. Or you make a folder in the C: or if you have it, on the D:. Gender doesn't matter in the Computing world. Commom sence does. Don't forget that.

It's looking for a domain with it's DNS setting and it can't find it. That's why it's taking so long to login.. Buddy