http://sgwindowsgroup.org/blogs/panda/archive/2010/03/11/slow-boot-up-of-domain-joined-windows-xp-client-machine.aspx  I know… everyone is talking about Windows 7 nowaday and Windows XP is about to EOL. However, my whole environment is still running on Windows XP under AD 2003. And what I see here is that knowing the fundamental is important. For all the recentenCommunityServer 2008 SP1 (Build: 30619.63)