Power Options Group Policy hanging/slow

[jmezzela]

Hi there

 

I was wondering if anyone has come across this before.

 

We have a Power Options GPO deployed to workstations in classrooms to keep the screen on for 1 hour. This is deployed as a Computer Configuration / Admin templates / System / Power Management policy, and via Preferences / Control Panel / Power Options policy.

 

When PCs boot up, the PCs hang on 'Applying Group Policy Options'. This can take anytime between a few seconds, to 7 minutes. On newer PCs it is a lot quicker (but still takes time on that policy), but most of our classroom desktops are quite old!

 

I have checked Event Viewer and can't seem to find anything in the logs that is causing this.

 

I have enabled the Group Policy Preference Power Options policy to run some troubleshooting, but this seems to only report on the preference side of the policy, but not the computer policy side of it. All seems to apply successfully.

 

Any guidance / advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Jack

[JRA]

Does this happen to PCs outside of that OU also? Age being a factor as you say might make it a little difficult to pin down. Depending on how old they are ofc...

 

If you remove this policy from the OU do things improve on the PCs?

[jmezzela]

Thank you for your reply. It doesn't happen outside of the OU as there isn't a power policy applied elswhere. I have noticed it happens mostly on devices running 3rd/4th Gen processors. I am going to try removing the policy and see how that goes..

 

Thanks!