At startup my applying personal settings message takes an awfully long time to load. And at the close...It hangs there at saving your settings. Ive had this problem before..but someone told me how to override it. does anyone no how to do that? (overriding saving your settings) The applying personal settings is new. I wanna know how to fix that also. Im not on roaming profiles either. Just local. I dont have a domain. windows 2000 professional. but someone told me how to change a variable and it forced it to log off within like 3 sec. anyone know what im talking about or anyone can help me