So, what does all this mean?Ī quick big of research on brndlog led me here – and here – EN-US 941158 which were the only links I could find that dealt with delays relating to these logs. 13:39:27 Broadcasting “Windows settings change” to all top level windows…Ī quick bit of maths shows that there’s 53 seconds of ‘broadcasting’ going on for this particular login – even longer in other cases. 13:38:44 Broadcasting “Windows settings change” to all top level windows… The run of the files seemed pretty normal until the very end: Within these files I found some surprising data….įor each login there were two brndlog files generated, a brndlog.bak and a brndlog.bak. I came across a few log files being written in the Local Application Data (%LOCALAPPDATA%\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer), brndlog.* and rsoplog.*.
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To kick things off I enabled verbose messaging see (I actual like this level of messaging, even for end users at least you know Windows is doing something when it’s doing its thing).įollowing that came the usual verbose Group Policy logging – Īnalysing these logs didn’t show up any obvious error so I went delving for other logs written at login (system wide) to see it they would shine any light. It was sparked by a persistent message saying Personalized Settings – Setting up personalized settings for: Browser Customizations which was hanging around a bit too long. They can be a University Student, Teaching Staff, TAFE students or even the general public, and each needs a different home drive pointer, different proxy settings (configured for IE and Firefox), and in some cases unique wallpaper and that’s just the start of it.Īs a result, for a number a years I didn’t think too much about login times in the region of 90 – 120 seconds, but earlier this year it became a bit of a bug-bear for me and so the investigations began. Further complexity arrives in the form of different settings required depending on the user type logging in to the PC. Due to SAN space issues we don’t provide roaming profiles, but do redirect Desktops and My Documents as well as a couple of system folders to user home drives. The Environment can be managed to the ‘nth degree but each extra tweak comes at the expense of an extra micro second at login.įor me Management is key as I look after around 3500 student facing and lecture theatre PCs. No, this is certainly aimed at administrators who need to delay activation for whatever reason, and even though 120 days seems a little over the top, we're sure many of them are relieved to know the number of days hasn't been reduced in Vista's successor.This is the age-old issue of balancing the need to get log in times as quick as possible v’s keeping the M in MOE. Pirates will of course have their own methods to get around activation, and here's confirmation that they have plenty of time to do so.
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For the five percent or so who purchase Windows 7 at retail, 30 days is likely enough to punch in the product key. Most users won't have to bother with these three steps since the majority, about 95 percent, get new versions of Windows with a new computer.