Go to %TEMP% and clean it out. I personally deleted everything older than 5 days. I have no idea why but this fixed an issue for me where it could take up to 3 minutes to get to the desktop after typing my password.
I somehow had like 100s of gigs of garbage in there. Funny enough doing a system cleanup does not clear out this directory!
The issue corresponded with an event in the Windows Event Viewer that looked like:
The winlogon notification subscriber <Profiles> is taking long time to handle the notification event (Logon).
And another that looked like:
The winlogon notification subscriber <Profiles> took 125 second(s) to handle the notification event (Logon).
(of course with a varying number of seconds depending on the boot)
Anyways, I’m not asking anyone for tech support in this case, but figure it may help someone else out.
Yep. This has been a long known issue with windows. We used to rebuild profiles, which indirectly fixed the problem back in the day. But we figured this out later. It seems like the temp dir seems to be traversed or at least indexed maybe during winlogon.
