advice on speeding up logon times.

[Hamzah]

maybe a script to delete all those temp files from users areas ,any help will be much appreciated. how do you guys get round this problem.

[jamin100]

whats in your current startup script?
Adding more thing at startups will only slow it down.

I'm having trouble with a printer vbs script runing at startup. Seems to be slowing the logins down considerably.

[Hamzah]

logon script is fine,problem seems to be with temp files, i cant exactly run ccleaner on every logon to delete temp files but need something similar.

[Michael]

I presume you're using roaming profiles? How big are the profiles? And how many users do you have?

[jamin100]

delprof ?

This will delete all the profiles on the machines so that they are re-downloaded from the server the next time a user logs on

[mac_shinobi]

logon script is fine,problem seems to be with temp files, i cant exactly run ccleaner on every logon to delete temp files but need something similar.

Define temp files - which temp files are you reffering to ( can you give us exact or aprox paths )

Also what about in group policy to enable :

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Logon\

Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon

[Hamzah]

delprof is not the way i want to go,will delete profiles at end of academic year,just need to delete temp files all the students have individual logons ,unlike my other school where it is just year band i.e. year6 or year5 ,of which it is so much easier to delete temp files while logged on as them with the help of ccleaner.

[Polski]

Try adding the logon server IP address and fully qualified domain name into %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

It's a "It works for us" tip. As there are no doubt good and bad point to doing it.

[Hamzah]

temp internet files ,well anything that i can delete, needed as space on server is limited at the moment.

[elsiegee40]

Consider using mandatory profiles. Thread here: Creating a small mandatory profile

And deleting old cookies - script here: clear old cookies on log off (or log on)

Emptying the recycle bin by script: Empty recycle bin after n days

This thread may also be handy: Trimming the size of profiles

PS Don't have too many scripts, otherwise you'll end up spending ages logging on/off because of the scripts!

[ricki]

HI

I had a problem once with just certain staff who had roaming profiles. It baffelled me for ages till I saw that the people with problems were storing huge files on the desktop that had to be downloaded every time they log on.

I had to stop them writing to the desktop and remove all the files back to the persons my documents on the server.

Just an Idea.

Richard

[powdarrmonkey]

I had to stop them writing to the desktop and remove all the files back to the persons my documents on the server.

Better than that: I redirect the desktop, application data, favourites etc folders all to equivalent folders on the homedrive, so stuff gets pulled across as required during a session instead of at the beginning of it. Got the profile down to about 500K.

[mac_shinobi]

instead of emptying recycle bin cant you set GPO to just delete items straight away instead of moving them to recycle bin and then emptying them and make all users fully aware of this

[srochford]

Try adding the logon server IP address and fully qualified domain name into %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

It's a "It works for us" tip. As there are no doubt good and bad point to doing it.

If you need to do that then it suggests that your DNS is broken. If you do

ipconfig /all

at a prompt, what address do you get for your DNS? Is it the correct address for a DNS server on your network (not one external to your network).

If you then type:

nslookup fullnameofserver.yourdomain.name 11.22.33.44

where 11.22.33.44 is replaced by the IP you got above, what do you get?

You can also use DNSLint from Microsoft to get a fuller check of the DNS settings.

[azrael78]

whats in your current startup script?
Adding more thing at startups will only slow it down.

I'm having trouble with a printer vbs script runing at startup. Seems to be slowing the logins down considerably.

Do you mean startup (as in PC startup) or login?
I've had similar issues with printer scripts, particularly when said printers or print-servers have been turned off by staff...

A good thing to do at logoff is to remove the mappings for all shared printers, this prevents the shared printers from being dragged around with users, however this is only 'good' when you DON'T want to store printers in user profiles - are using profiles and actually make use of print servers (be it PC boxes as print servers or dedicated endpoint devices).

I forgot to do the above - and printers from all and sundry followed our roaming profile users (staff) - took me a while to work that one out.

Peace.

Az