[OPLINTECH] Windows Hangs at Please Wait or Welcome

[dkamnitzer at worthingtonlibraries.org]

Hi Mindy,

	There are a few things that could cause these hang-ups. 

Your Library loads a bunch of Group Policy Objects: When you can log into one of the machines having this issue, go to a DOS prompt, and run gpresult /H c:\temp.html. What this will do is create a file named temp.html at the root of your C:\ drive. If you open that up you can see if there are any Group Policies that are failing to load or are having issues. This could cause hang times because if a GPO is failing it is waiting to see if it will work.

Your Library attaches a lot of printers during login: If a printer is not named correctly in a script, this could cause slow load times.

If you have DHCP enabled: If you are using DHCP, and you have not reserved all your static addressed machines, a conflict could be occurring, and could cause major slow loading times.

A great way to see if there are errors in general, is to go the Event Viewer (In windows 7, just type Event Viewer in the search window from the start button) and look in the Windows Logs/Application and System. These tend to log alerts and failures, and might give you a starting point in what might be happening.

Darren Kamnitzer
Network Administrator

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-----Original Message-----
From: oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org] On Behalf Of Mindy Holmes
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 1:14 PM
To: oplintech at lists.oplin.org
Subject: [OPLINTECH] Windows Hangs at Please Wait or Welcome

I have read a number of things that state why this may happen and would rather not spend a lot of time guessing which issue is the problem.  
What I am looking for is a way to determine what is going on during the 
"hang time".   What is the best way to do this so I can resolve the 
issue?  Is there a good way to "see it" built in to Windows (using Win7) or is there a 3rd party solution (preferably free) that could help accomplish this.  I would like to find something that might help pinpoint what the issue is rather than go through an endless trial and error process.

Thanks,
Mindy Holmes
Mason Public Library
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