Long delay when “Applying Security Policy”

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I have a Thinkpad 570 that I upgraded to W2K a while back. Although it only has 64MB of RAM, it’s perfectly useable apart from one annoyance — it takes AGES to boot. In particular, once the GUI has started to load and before the log-in dialog appears, it sits for a couple of minutes displaying the message “Applying security policy”.

I don’t know enough about the W2K security architecture to know if there’s anything I could tweak to make this process faster — or maybe I simply need to upgrade the hardware?!

Ed

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Can you check your event log – are there any errors being reported at start-up?

Meanwhile, check Tip 3594

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Thanks very much! There were no errors in the event log, but that registry tweak has solved the problem completely.

Thanks again

Ed

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