Windows 10: Windows 10 slowness at login and when opening explorer

We have windows 10 1903 laptops that are always connected to the internet via cell cards. They are extremely slow to login and slow to access explorer when we have the connection active, when the connection is turned off that slowness is immediately gone. I have verbose messages turned on at login and it will "hang" at either welcome or user profile service for a bit. The laptops are obviously trying to communicate with the domain (never had this issue with win 7 using same GPO's). I have tried a lot of gpo suggestions found on the internet and none have made a difference at login or explorer.

We do not have roaming profiles, but we do use folder redirection for my documents and that has to be where my issue is


I have worked with these gpo's


computer config>admin temp>system>user profiles

- detection of slow network connections

- wait for the remote copy of the roaming user profile

- slow network connection timeout for user profiles

- set max wait time for the network if user has roaming profile


computer config>admin temp>system>logon

- always wait for the network at computer startup and logon


Sync is off on these laptops and the csc service is disabled in registry. I have tried turning this back on, but it had no effect.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\CSC]
"Start"=dword:00000004

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Windows 10 Very Slow Login

Hi Arul,

What's with the slow login and unlocking in Windows 10? We're still suffering with the issue, we're using high end PCs, overclocked ones with SSDs and paid that much for speed, and Windows 10 comes to slow down our machines?!

Please raise this issue to higher level management or someone who can take a real step in fixing the issue ASAP.

Thank you.

 

Explorer Opens slow

I have tried the steps listed below. Method 2 and pinned it to the task bar. This helps it open faster but when it opens then the open window are grouped away from the icon on the task bar. I have to have two explorer folders pinned to the task bar to
have a fast opening Explorer and grouped windows together.



When I do "open file location" the original one shows it is on the desktop, but it is not there. The other one I created tracks back to the C:\ drive location as it was created. Just kind of weird that one is referencing the Desktop when it is not there.
Maybe hidden but still kind of odd.

How can I make it where I only have one Explorer that is both fast to open and the only one on the task bar?

Method 1: Rebuild your search index.

• Press Windows key + R, type control.exe srchadmin.dll, and click on OK.
• Click on the Advanced button.
• From the Advanced dialogue box, select Rebuild. Selecting Rebuild will begin the process of deleting, and then rebuilding your PC’s search index.

Note: While the steps to initiate the rebuilding process are simple, the actual process can take quite some time depending on how much data Windows has to index.

Method 2: Create a File Explorer shortcut on your desktop.

• On your Windows 10 desktop, right-click with the mouse.
• Select New > Shortcut.
• Type explorer.exe in the Location box.
• Click on Next button.
• Click on Finish button. You should now have a shortcut on your desktop.
• Right-click the new shortcut, and select Properties.
• Under Target line, change it to (note the space between C:\Windows\explorer.exe and /n):
  
  C:\Windows\explorer.exe /n
• Click the OK button. Now you can double-click it like your regular File Explorer app.

Method 3: Reset the File Explorer view to the default settings across all your folders.

• Launch File Explorer, click the File menu, and select Change folder and search options.
• Click on the View tab.
• Under Folder views, click on Reset Folders.
• Click the OK button.

Let us know if any of the suggestions helped.