We are now introducing Windows 7 into our mostly XP environment. I've had Group Policies redirecting system folders for a number of years under XP. All recently deployed Windows 7 machines (32 or 64 bit) are experiencing significant delays getting to the desktop on logon. The systems all hang processing folder redirection for a couple of minutes. Our domain is still Win 2003.

Specifically it is related to the redirection of the Documents folder. Since all these folders were already redirected for all our users on their XP machines, I don't think it is related to having to move files.

I am seeing warnings such as these in the Application event log:

The winlogon notification subscriber <GPClient> is taking long time to handle the notification event (Logon). [event id 6005]

The winlogon notification subscriber <GPClient> took 75 second(s) to handle the notification event (Logon). [event id 6006]

Before the first warning and after the second warning, I see entries indicating that my documents folder redirection policy is being applied and then that it was successfully applied.

Just to be sure it wasn't something else, I set a security permission denying the application of this policy to my user account and rebooted a few times. Each time, I got right to my desktop. After I took out the deny permission, I started experiencing the delays again.

I have a similar policy relocating the desktop that is behaving just fine.

By the way, I'm not seeing this problem on Vista 64 machines introduced last year.

Anybody have any ideas