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Login after switch user when 1 user is already logged in takes 6 minutes for second user on Pro/Home
on a less powerful system but with M.2 SSD (i7 7700k, 16GB DDR4 RAM @ 3200Mhz), on Windows 10 pro insider (build 21277), I enabled that policy,
then went to Windows settings, made a 2nd offline account for the first time, switched straight to the newly created account from start menu => profile picture icon, took ~20 seconds to make that account ready for the first time and show me the desktop.
after I did that, signed out from that 2nd account, pressed Win + L on my main account, then signed in from login screen into the 2nd account, took ~3 seconds.
difference in our experience could be related to hardware or different version of Windows.
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HotCakeX This is what I would expect. I don't think hardware makes a big difference here. I'm not chasing seconds but rather it takes 6 minutes for the second logged in user to be fully usable. I don't have anything strange in my build too, just high-end components - 5950x, 32GB DDR4 RAM @ 3200Mhz, RTX 3090, M.2 SSD 2TB 970 Pro Plus, Asus Dark Hero MB. This is it. I even disabled Wifi and second network port from Bios. All settings are stock, I only enabled XMP for memory.
Zero other software, fresh install Windows 10 PRO (tried Home too) and create additional local account. It happens 100% every time if one account is already logged in.
It is probably a bug in Windows. Just looking if it happens for someone else too and if someone stumbled on some workaround (like some group policy or something).
P.S1: So one more thing, at one point I was trying everything from the internet and I think I disabled welcome screen from gpo and it started to work as expected, 1 second to login to second account. I tried it a few times - all great. So I created 2 more accounts as I need 4 total. And it break it again. Even 2 original accounts were slow again. I tried to redo what I did - but it did not help. I reinstalled fresh and tried the same again - nothing. This is why I think its a bug and that there is a workaround but I cant find it.
P.S2: I have another PC with updated windows 10 pro. It is an old PC (i7-2600K, 32GB RAM, SATA SSD) and it has similar problem. I usually only use 1 account on it. But now I tried to login to another account and I see similar behavior: ~1 minute of Welcome screen and then ~5 minutes Start Menu and taskbar are not working (show progress icon if you hover the mouse). Apps from Desktop are working (same on my new pc). I don't remember having this issue earlier. Looks like a bug in 2020H2 update.
