I have seen many people on forums with this problem-- the system hangs when logging in, most of the time at the "applying network settings" section. I have a solution to this problem if it is occurring on a laptop with wireless. Everyone kept telling me it MUST be a DNS issue, and it is not (at least in this case.) Go into your wireless settings and look at your list of "preferred networks." Every time you connect to a hotspot it will add itself to this list. The three systems on my domain having this problem had about 60 different "preferred networks" listed because the users travel a lot as their job. I removed all of the "preferred networks" except for three or four they used regularly and it fixed the issue completely. It has worked every time we tried it since as well. My guess is that every time they booted fresh, or restarted, the system checked the availability of each one of these connections before logging in. If it only checks 4 or 5, you never see the slowness. When there is a build-up of them over time (in this case 50-60) then you see how long it takes. Hope this helps some people! Mark

That sounds like good information. Do you have a rememdy for slow logins on a wired network?

try deleting (or renaming) the windows profile. sometimes the profile gets corrupted and hangs at applying settings.

its DNS! :-) Sorry but a lot of network slowness in a MS environment is a misconfigured DNS server. This is because name resolution's last resort is broadcasts which take time. Good info mnmorency! I will store in the ol' mental DB Give a person a fish you feed them for a day. Ask a person to internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.