Windows 7 please wait screen

[ngibson]

I have windows 7 clients with a gpo 'always wait for the network at computer startup....' so get the please wait screen when booting up before the logon screen appears.

 

This usually works fine but I have noticed that sometimes a PC will be stuck on the 'please wait' screen for along time. I have been trying to work out why and finally realized that it is after the PC is dramatically shut down (cable pulled out etc) instead of doing a proper windows shutdown.

 

Does anybody know what causes this and is there a solution.

[mowgli82]

enable the verbose logging gpo this should help with diagnostics

[CHM-ITServices]

+1 for verbose logging. I actually have it on all the time now as i prefer to see what is going on.

[ngibson]

If I do this what should I be looking for in the log file?

[CHM-ITServices]

You don't need to go into the logs. It replaces the 'Please Wait...' with the differnt process' it's running. i.e. installing software or folder redirection etc

[ngibson]

Ah yes. I have tried this before when loading some software. I will give it a go but I'm sure it gets to please wait and is stuck there.

[Gardinho]

What is the size of the WBEM cache? Check %windir%System32\Wbem\Repository

 

You might need to rebuild the WMI Repository.