Windows 7 slow to load profile

If you think about that for a second, it's almost a half a gigabyte in size. While your profile is made up of settings for mouse, Window based applications, third party programs and other items, cleaning up your desktop can improve system performance if disk cleanup tools seem to fall short in making improvements. To help keep your profile size small and under control, follow these simple guidelines:. Remember, keeping large items off the desktop and saving them else where such as My Computer may be the difference in gaining back lost performance with your computer… especially after you have exhausted all other methods.

Better yet, just add it your list of cleanup routines. Filed under Windows Tips by Mike Boyds. Bloat is never good but the advice you have posted here is…well…wrong. If you store files and folders in My Documents, those files add to the size of your user profile, just the same as if they were on the desktop. And the size of your user profile has just about nothing at all to do with boot times, slowing Windows down or running out of memory or any of a host of other ills that are claimed though to be fair, you didn't claim anything other than a slowdown in your write-up.

Speedup from logging completely off that profile and into an admin profile that has a paltry 80 megabytes in the user profile? I completely disagree with you. I fixed many anomalies caused by bloated profiles and despite what Microsoft says it does cause issues do you really think they would tell you otherwise.

I have to agree with the original message, reducing large user profiles speeds up and removes many bloaty problems. You can also use GPO to exclude certain file types from being copied in their profile. Things like MP3 and other known junk that you don't want can be excluded. We have roaming profiles and we've done just that.

I haven't done any performance metrics, but I imagine it's improved logon times as well as reduced the amount of "garbage" being redirected to our file server.

However, instead of excluding by file types, we excluded certain folders. EDIT: Although I set up the original exclusions a while back, I'm still encountering new folders to exclude from roaming. One of our software vendors stores their log files in each user's Documents folder. It's good to have them excluded and off the server. Research Folder Redirection. It's what is used now to help with large roaming profiles.

Because, as you're seeing, it can really slow things down. Admins can more easily manage the settings per object and assign those settings as a drag-and-drop operation to users and groups that require them. Even customized user settings from the session are saved into the database for quick operations at both logon and logoff. View the Data Sheet. The printer mapping process during the user logon can also contribute to delays in the desktop or application loading.

If normal Windows printers are used, the network printers will download and install the print driver and then connect to the printer. This is iterated for the number of printers and often slows down the perceived logon time for the user. When utilizing Citrix printers, the printing policies must be evaluated and then the print queues created while the user is waiting.

Tricerat Simplify Printing solves these problems by using a several methods. First, printers are built asynchronously with the logon process, allowing the desktop or application to load while the printers are still being created. Simplify Printing also uses database queries to determine what printers need to be created for the user, offering the fastest possible processing. Finally, the only driver that is required is already loaded on the system, drastically reducing any time required to copy and load the driver.

Every print queue utilizes this one driver, so regardless of the number of printers built, the process is much more efficient. Learn More About Simplify Printing. The Windows logon process is complex and can be very frustrating for end users when they have long wait times. I'd hardly consider this a "slow" login.

Unfortunately there is no easy way to troubleshoot such slow logons - the delay might be network-related, or something completely different.

What you can do:. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Asked 9 years, 4 months ago. Active 9 years, 4 months ago. Viewed 5k times. Additional information: We do not have any specific group policy settings, except for 4 options dealing with Windows update I think it's 4 of them that we are using. All computers are members of the domain, users are logging in using a domain account.

Profiles need to be deleted in the rare case they become corrupted. Don't ask me why - ask Microsoft. Improve this question. Neolisk Neolisk 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. Don't delete the local profiles?

You don't provide nearly enough information to answer this, is the PC a member of a domain, what sorts of group policies are being applied, etc So, assuming that "near instant" isn't going to happen for the first login, as that's only happening on subsequent logins because of the work being done in the " minutes" of the first login, what time would you consider acceptable for a first login, how have you arrived at that and what troubleshooting have you done already to find delays yourself?

ErnieTheGeek: replacement of the PC usually deletes all the local accounts. With many number of PCs and frequent change of hardware, this issue is inevitable.