Systems Management

My sltrace.htm files vary from 8 seconds to 2 minutes. The 2 minute ones are on wireless laptops that have just been booted and are downloading patches and installing apps as part of the computer elements - the students call it the "black screen of death" where it sits at a blank black screen for a minute or two.

I'm not so sure the trace log times are accurate. I have trouble believing that dozens of actions can happen in the same second on some of our older computers but it is hard to differentiate the normal windows stuff from the DA "Computer management" stuff from the DA "login" stuff.

You should definitely look in the log for large delays (shown as red text) - we recently had a problem where our 2003 print server couldn't offer x64 print drivers and the laptops were attempting to go out to Windows Update to find them, causing a multi-minute delay.

If you have Computer management items enabled that will slow down the login process also as they are still running unless the computer has been sitting for a long period of time. - mbutler522010 10 years ago

Don't forget about duplicate Group Policies you might be applying. Ones from GPMC, and also any you have running in DA. Any roaming profiles? Any copying of large amounts of files using DA? Also, I know this sounds like a canned response, I would update to the latest version. We constantly add fixes to newer versions. Also in the future explain in detail all the systems and OS's in detail. - JMorano 10 years ago