Windows 7 login

[Aaron]

Hi everyone

 

hoping someone can help me here i have just started testing windows 7 in our school and so far its working great that i can login and get my documents on windows 7 no problem and on xp with no issues. The problem has now happened that when i login to windows 7 machine it works great very fast but when i move over to a windows xp machine it just sits at applying personal settings and doesnt go anywere.

 

This has only started happening as of yesterday i dont understand why this is happening, i am using local profiles not mandatory profiles. Has anyone come accross this before or know why it doesnt allow me now to login to a windows xp machine.

 

Thank you

[Aaron]

sorry i should have also said i have seperated out all my GPO's for using filters for windows xp and windows 7 and they seem to be working fine.

[Aaron]

Ok it seems to work now if i logon to the machine as the administrator and delete my locally stored profile and then logout and in as myself again it seems to work fine i will play about with it a bit more because i wouldnt want this to happen when its rolled out to all the pupils

[Michael]

Any reason why you don't deploy Windows 7 to all your network?

 

Can you logon as a local administrator on the XP machines?

[ricki]

Any reason why you don't deploy Windows 7 to all your network?

 

Cost of liciences I would guess

[Aaron]

its really the machines just about support windows xp they wouldnt be able to handle windows 7 they are slow right now and thats with windows xp installed which is why i wasnt going to deploy to the entire network just try and seperate it for windows xp and windows 7

[Michael]

Is there a reason you don't have roaming profiles? They can save you a lot of work, instead of going round many machines.

 

I've had Windows 7 running on 5+ year old machines and I think you'd be surprised just how well it does perform.