Internet Explorer Slow First Run Without Mandatory Profiles

[Sean]

Since we migrated to our academy group's fancy new AD structure, last summer, ICT have reported that Internet Explorer is very slow starting up

I finally got to go down and do some proper testing during half term this week and have come to the conclusion that it's an IE first run thing - basically, if a user has a profile in place on a given computer and has ran IE in the past then IE will start fine but if they haven't (and our group policy is set to get rid of profiles that have been inactive for 2 weeks) then IE can take up to about 2 mins to start up

All the welcome screen and wizards are disabled but I guess IE must still be doing all of its setting up for a new user in the background

I believe we were still using a mandatory profile for students, that had ran IE and gone thought the first-run process, right up until the change over last summer so that's why ICT weren't seeing IE starting up slowly before

 

So...

Does this sound right? Is a slow starting IE on first run just a fact of life if you don't run mandatory profiles and periodically delete unused ones or is there anything else we can do to speed up the 'first run' a bit, without having to go back to mandatory profiles?

IIRC In earlier versions of IE there used to be a small pop-up displaying the stages of the first-run set-up process, is there some GP setting somewhere to bring that back if only to give users something to look at while they're waiting?

Thanks

Edited June 2, 2016 by Sean

[Guest obsidianpillar]

Just disable all accelerators and add-ons and tell IE to go straight to home page skipping the "First Run Wizard"? I haven't got the exact policies to hand that I've setup in various environments. However I've used local, mandatory and roaming profiles and never had any slow launch problems when running IE apart from the obvious fact that, well, it's IE

 

Hope this helps.

 

Best,

Tom