Last week one of our stores had a problem with seemingly slow starting workstations. These workstations where hanging for at least 15 minutes on “Applying computers settings”.
The workstations that where affected at first seemed to be randomly.
Because the local admin had created a new master-copy a few weeks earlier, and he couldn’t remember whether the machines that where affected had received this new image I decided to first investigate the master before attempting to monitor the network.
All dynamic DHCP settings where okay, netsh int ip reset didn’t work, neither did deleting the whole network card and re-adding it.
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