Windows 10 Windows 10 slowness at login and when opening explorer

[Scott Jones (Scott.Jones)]

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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