I’m running Windows Server 2008 on my notebook and was wondering about a slow boot time showing applying computer settings which took more 3:06 minutes. Now I have found the solution and my system start takes only 1:50 minutes which is an enhancement of more than one third. So here is the detailed description of what I have done…

Error description

When you take a look at the event viewer you will see the following warnings:

• EventID: 6005
  The winlogon notification subscriber <GPClient> is taking long time to handle the notification event (CreateSession).
• EventID: 6006
  The winlogon notification subscriber <GPClient> took 134 second(s) to handle the notification event (CreateSession).

Solution

My notebook smart card reader which caused trouble with the Group Policy Client. After disabling the smart card reader in device manager my system boot was faster.

Although 1:50 minutes isn’t as fast as my Vista partition it saves time…

Last month I got some error messages after creating a customized onet.xml and content types in SharePoint. One of the error messages was: A duplicate name "Item" was found. After taking a look into the SharePoint log files I found more details:

I tried to create a website based on my custom ont.xml and my custom content types. The reason for this error message was a spelling error in my custom content type:

<ContentType ID="0x010100............08}"

After removing the bracket at the end the site creation process was successful.

If you want to extract an assembly (.dll) from the Global Assembly Cache you can use the following method which doesn't require a third party tool:

Open the Explorer and go to "Tools" in order to map a network drive.

There you can enter the server name and the folder: \\SERVERNAME\FOLDER. In my case it is: \\moss2007\c$\windows\assembly. You don't need to share the folder if you are an administrator. After the mapping you can browse the GAC and extract an assembly.

If you try to copy a large file from a network share sometimes Windows Server 2008 or Vista freezes the network connection although you have Service Pack 1 installed. After that you have to reboot in order to get your network connection to work. You can find some discussions without any solution. I had the same problem and this workaround works for me:

1. Never click at the "More information" button which is calculating the speed. Since I don't look at the information even file copies of 26GB are working - up and down.
2. Copy large files one by one using the crtl+c key combination.
3. Don't drag and drop files or folders.

I hope it works for somebody too.