The error in the title is now showing up in the Event Logs of dozens of different Windows 7 workstations. It is now taking some machines over 1 hour to log in. A user will enter their name and password and then press Enter. They see the "Welcome" screen on Windows 7 and it hangs at the Welcome screen. One machine took over 2 hours to log in. Why? What can cause this?
In our GPO Management we have only a few GPO policies being applied. And they have not changed in a long while. We do NOT install any software via GPO. We use it mainly for IE settings, Trusted Site lists, to call a login script, custom wallpaper....stuff like that.
This started to happen a few weeks ago and now it is happening more and more and uses are very upset. I've Googled this a bit and I've seen some posts that speak of Printer Drivers. That does not appear to be our issue. It is something else.
Also it is hit or miss. User "A" can take 45 min to log in today and then tomorrow it takes 1 minute.
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I wanted to add that here is how the service is setup on the machines where it won't start.