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<p>If you are using a domain environment with roaming profiles or home directories that are located on remote machines (servers) and experience slow log-on process this is probably because Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 are configured not to detect to which Windows Domain Controller they belong to by default.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s how to speed up the domain logon process on Windows 7 machine. (Probably will apply to Windows XP too). <!--more--></p>
<p>Open group policy management (gpedit.msc) and navigate to the following section:</p>
<p><strong>Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | System | User Profiles</strong></p>
<p>In the right pane double click <strong>&#8216;set the maximum wait time for the network if a user has a roaming user profile or remote home directory&#8217;</strong> GP setting.</p>
<p>In the &#8216;Wait for network for maximum (seconds) enter <strong>0</strong> and click <strong>Enable </strong>radio button.</p>
<p>Your slow domain logon issues should be gone now.</p>
<p>Comments are welcome.</p>