Are users in your organization dealing with slow logon times?  If so, the below information will help inform you on common reasons for slow logins, and then offer some solutions to fix and prevent the problems that cause slow login times across your organization.

Productivity Killer Number One: The Slow Login

Sure, if your users wait (and wait) to login to their computers, they may end up getting frustrated. But is it really that big of a problem? Consider this: Your users might complain about the amount of time it takes to login in the morning, you may be tempted to just put the login issue on the back burner and attend to more 'important' tasks. But when you consider what five minutes of time lost every morning for every employee for every day of the foreseeable future, it's easy to see how slow logins can affect the company's bottom line.

Let's take a closer look at common causes of slow logins and explore how to resolve them.

Slow Logins Caused by User Profiles

One common cause for slow logins can be traced back to the user profile. Users may be suffering slow login times as a result of a profile that is bloated with a variety of work-related computer tweaks—if your users have extensive photo collections or like to keep their entire iTunes library on their computers, they may see slow logins. Also, long-time employees with roaming profiles are at risk of experiencing slow logins due to the fact that their profile has become overburdened with data over the years.

Thankfully, triCerat offers an effective, affordable way to better manage profiles and eliminate slow login times. triCerat's Simplify Profiles, part of the Simplify Suite, provides businesses with an alternative to top heavy roaming profiles and ever growing profile bloat issues. Simplify Profiles offers flexible profile management that improves not only slow login times but also overall system performance.

Slow Logins Caused by Logon Scripts

Login scripts can certainly make life more convenient for system administrators; admins can automate a variety of desktop management tasks with a piece of code. But their flexibility and ease of creation can actually create slow login problems if a new system administrator has to write his new scripts on top of older scripts. If login scripts are improperly configured or inconsistently maintained, a slow login can quickly shift to no ability to logon at all.

triCerat's Simplify Suite can help avoid slow login times caused by login scripts and can improve the efficiency of the login process. Simplify Suite is a management console that lets you easily oversee everything from applications to folder redirections, registry values and drive mappings. But the best part is that Simplify Suite allows your business to have a consistent login process, regardless of whether your system administrator changes.

An Effective, Efficient Way to Handle Slow Login Issues

For system administrators looking for ways to resolve slow login problems due to profile issues or login scripts, ignoring the problem is certainly an option—though not a particularly viable one. Profile management software like triCerat's Simplify Profiles, part of the larger Simplify Suite, offers an effective, efficient way to eliminate slow logon times and a number of other profile- and login-related issues.
 

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