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I have a class of machines which all logon a user on extremely slow. After looking at the logs I can see that something called the Desktop Windows Manager is failing.

 

"The Desktop Window Manager was unable to start because a composited theme is not in use"

followed by

"The Desktop Window Manager has exited with code (0x40010004)"

 

This takes around 2+ minutes and I'm not sure whats going on as Aero does work when eventually logged on. I assume the Desktop Window Manager is for aero, isn't it?

 

I have tried trying to set a theme using gpo and tried it without. Still no difference. Googling has not helped so far.

 

Please can anyone help.

Edited by eshaq786

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