hnadler

I am experiencing issues with my Windows XP systems where only some of them are experiencing long login times (on the order of 40-80 minutes) in remote offices. All of my domain controllers and dns servers are in my corporate office, and the remote offices are linked back via vpn connections over cable or DSL internet. I'm looking at my user profile folder as I am logging into the computer remotely, and I observed the ntuser.dat.LOG file being written and then rewritten over and over again. While this is happening, the ntuser.pol file is slowly increasing in size. As I am writing this, my login process has been running for about an hour, and the ntuser.pol file is up to 54k in size. I don't have roaming or mandatory profiles in place. I have also logged into this computer before, so it didn't need to build a brand new profile for me. Does anyone have any insight as to what might be going on?

You need to get the storage driver for Windows XP before you can install. The easiest way to do this is to download it from HP's website directly, and have a usb floppy drive handy. I just went through this for my HP Compaq 6530b: On another computer, I went to HP's website, and downloaded the Intel Matrix Storage Manager. I ran the setup to extract the files, and then canceled the setup (didn't want to run on that computer). The files needed were in the "\Winall\Driver" folder where I extracted the files to. Copy these files to a floppy disk. Hook up a usb floppy drive with this floppy disk inserted, and boot off the Windows XP installation CD. When the blue setup screen first comes up, you'll see the message at the bottom of the screen to "Press f6 if you need to install a third party scsi or raid driver". Press F6, and Windows setup will search the floppy disk for any drivers, and prompt you to install what is available. This should solve your problem. I don't know if you can use a flash drive instead of a floppy drive - I've never tried.