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March 08, 2009 - 2 Comments  

The winlogon notification subscriber took 134 second(s) to handle the notification event (CreateSession).

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).

Here you can see the event viewer:

 The winlogon notification subscriber <GPClient> is taking long time to handle the notification event (CreateSession). 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.

System properties in Windows Server 2008 Device Manager in Windows Server 2008

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



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Comments (2) -

6/15/2011 9:31:22 AM #

How did you know it was the smart card reader that was causing the problems?

Ash Australia Reply

6/15/2011 7:20:46 PM #

Hi Ash,

that's a good question... I don't know, either I saw it somewhere in the event viewer next to the message listed in this post or I missed to write down the source which would be a mistake by me.

Sorry for that...
Andreas

Andreas Glaser Switzerland Reply

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