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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Windows 10 Pro version 2004 Slow Login Page

« on: August 27, 2020, 11:03:08 am »

Hi Boggin,

I guess the same questions still might apply.  I did the AV shutdown (Webroot Security) and the issue remains with the slow password login box.  So I did I added a DWORD to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization
NoLockScreen with REG_DWORD set to "1"

This change forces the login screen to immediately present the password entry box without having to touch the mouse or keyboard.  This saves a huge amount of time, but even with that said, you will see the "waiting for ProfSvc" dialog which takes a while, maybe 20 seconds.  Finally, you log into the machine.  I never had to do that in the past (like a few days ago!)

Something tells me I have a corrupted profile.  As a test, I created another user with Administrative permissions.  Doing a basic creation and setup of my new profile called "John Doe," I logged out and logged into the new account.  STILL had to wait about 45 seconds!  Therefore, either it is not the profile that is corrupted or I cannot create a decent profile anymore for some reason.

Is it better to use the Media Creation Tool and reinstall Windows while keeping my applications and settings or give Tweaking Repair a crack at the issue?

Thoughts?

Chris

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Windows 10 Pro version 2004 Slow Login Page

« on: August 26, 2020, 11:17:40 pm »

Hi,

My system boots up fine until I get to the pretty login picture. I can either touch the mouse or hit any key and the little box for my login password always appeared until yesterday. Now I have to wait about 45 to 50 seconds before the system reacts correctly to my request to enter my password.

When I look at the event viewer, I see a number of services being delayed by 45 seconds from starting which was never the issue a few days ago. I have had no Microsoft updates, application updates and no hardware updates over the last week, but this thing started yesterday about 2PM.

This is what happen exactly: I was in one of my VMware Workstation Pro guest machines getting a Microsoft update in that Windows 10 O/S when I noticed I was running late for a GoToMeeting, so I finished the update successfully, shut down the VM O/S successfully and started an older GoToMeeting application to get me into the meeting. When I hit that GoToMeeting "join" button, my whole system (now at my host Windows 10 Pro operation...no VM running) locked up very hard. The mouse cursor moved around, but could not select or activate anything! After a few moments, the system came around enough for me to shut everything down and reboot to get to my meeting. That is when I noticed that everything seemed normal until I went ot login by hitting the <enter> key to start the login process. Nothing happened. the date and time dropped off like it should, but the little password box did not come up, hence there was nothing to log into. I could not even reboot as nothing worked until after 45 seconds, the login box finally showed and I could log into my machine. Everything work perfectly fine after that.

Finally, I uninstalled the GoToMeeting application and did a clean reboot, but the 45 second delay still exists at the login page. If I boot into a Safe Mode., everything works fine and I login very fast. I also use MSCONFIG.EXE and disables all of my non-Windows services and still have the 45 second delay to login, so it is not related to any of my applications. Besides, with no changes and everything workign from before, why would any of my applications make any difference on this login problem.

Has anybody had this kind of delayed login problem? remember, once logged in, everything works perfectly. BTW, this delay login only takes place from a cold startup or restart. You can log out and log into any other user on your machine and the login process is fast. This has something with a driver that loads one-time at either a cold-start or a warm reboot or restart.

Thanks for reading through this as I want to give people the most detail I could.  BTW, I noted that the login screen being in verbose mode indicated that I had to wait (a long time) for the ProfSvc (Profile Service) to load.

Can Tweaking help this issue?

Chris

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Tweaking Pro will not stay in Windows 7 Tray

« on: November 19, 2016, 09:06:00 am »

Hi,

Tweaking Pro (latest version as of today) starts with Windows fine, but I have a one-time crash between explorer.exe and mswsock,dll and when Windows restarts explorer.exe, I loose Tweaking Pro's Tray icon.  I can still use the program, but the tray icon will only come back if I restart the computer.  Even when I use the task manager to shut down explorer.exe and restart it, your program will not come back to the tray.

I have the explorer.exe and mswsock.dll crash.dmp file if that helps.  I have attached it for your review.
Thanks,
Chris