Applying your personal settings

My server did a hard stop this afternoon (0x000000 from what I could see).
The machine rebooted but when I logged on the machine sat at "Applying your
personal settings" for 20 minutes before I forced a hard reset, which of
course made the server run a chkdsk on the volume that takes well over 30
minutes to complete.

What makes a server lock up on "Applying... "? I've seen it before and
could only fix it by rebooting into safe mode, logging on, then immediately
rebooting normally. I've found many fixes for the problem for client
machines, but not a single fix for when a 2003 server is doing it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Meinolf
Fri Jul 11 02:46:14 PDT 2008

Hello Wowbagger" privacy, please,

Firstly, start the server as normal, without interfering anything. Do not
make a hard shutdown during startup, let it run. I don't know if you have
configured the policy, "Shutdown server when security log is full". If yes
it takes really long for a startup and you also have to do additional steps
to get it back running correctly. This shutdown looks like a BSOD, but the
description in the window states exactly this message.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
no rights.
** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm

> My server did a hard stop this afternoon (0x000000 from what I could
> see). The machine rebooted but when I logged on the machine sat at
> "Applying your personal settings" for 20 minutes before I forced a
> hard reset, which of course made the server run a chkdsk on the volume
> that takes well over 30 minutes to complete.
>
> What makes a server lock up on "Applying... "? I've seen it before
> and could only fix it by rebooting into safe mode, logging on, then
> immediately rebooting normally. I've found many fixes for the problem
> for client machines, but not a single fix for when a 2003 server is
> doing it.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>

Wowbagger
Fri Jul 11 10:46:58 PDT 2008

That policy is not enabled.

When the server hangs on the applying personal settings screen what else can
I do besides a hard shutdown?


"Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:ff16fb66a363d8cab162db815294@msnews.microsoft.com...
> Hello Wowbagger" privacy, please,
>
> Firstly, start the server as normal, without interfering anything. Do not
> make a hard shutdown during startup, let it run. I don't know if you have
> configured the policy, "Shutdown server when security log is full". If yes
> it takes really long for a startup and you also have to do additional
> steps to get it back running correctly. This shutdown looks like a BSOD,
> but the description in the window states exactly this message.
>
> Best regards
>
> Meinolf Weber
> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>
>> My server did a hard stop this afternoon (0x000000 from what I could
>> see). The machine rebooted but when I logged on the machine sat at
>> "Applying your personal settings" for 20 minutes before I forced a
>> hard reset, which of course made the server run a chkdsk on the volume
>> that takes well over 30 minutes to complete.
>>
>> What makes a server lock up on "Applying... "? I've seen it before
>> and could only fix it by rebooting into safe mode, logging on, then
>> immediately rebooting normally. I've found many fixes for the problem
>> for client machines, but not a single fix for when a 2003 server is
>> doing it.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>
>