Hello,
I've been having some issues logging in lately to my recently-built computer. For the first several days, boot times were great (thanks to an SSD) and login took about 2 seconds. A couple weeks ago, though, it started taking 20 or more seconds to log me in. Initial boot times were still great, but it would hang on the "Welcome" screen afterward. I couldn't think of any big programs that I added that would have caused this or anything like that. I've looked through and haven't been able to find anything.
Now, after some google searches, I did come across an issue a bunch of people had been having where if your desktop background was a solid color, login times would go up, similar to the issue I'm having. The only issue is, my background isn't, and hasn't ever been, a solid color; it's a JPEG image, which supposedly never caused the login problem. I actually tried installing the hotfix that Microsoft released nonetheless, but to no avail.
I tried a registry fix, too, adding a "DelayedDesktopSwitchTimeout" file to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System directory. This was not successful either.
So I'm stumped. I don't know what it could be.
If anyone has any ideas, input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
-Charlie
I've been having some issues logging in lately to my recently-built computer. For the first several days, boot times were great (thanks to an SSD) and login took about 2 seconds. A couple weeks ago, though, it started taking 20 or more seconds to log me in. Initial boot times were still great, but it would hang on the "Welcome" screen afterward. I couldn't think of any big programs that I added that would have caused this or anything like that. I've looked through and haven't been able to find anything.
Now, after some google searches, I did come across an issue a bunch of people had been having where if your desktop background was a solid color, login times would go up, similar to the issue I'm having. The only issue is, my background isn't, and hasn't ever been, a solid color; it's a JPEG image, which supposedly never caused the login problem. I actually tried installing the hotfix that Microsoft released nonetheless, but to no avail.
I tried a registry fix, too, adding a "DelayedDesktopSwitchTimeout" file to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System directory. This was not successful either.
So I'm stumped. I don't know what it could be.
If anyone has any ideas, input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
-Charlie