Within the last week or so, fast user switching has gone from fast to very
slow. It takes 45-60 seconds, once a switch command is issued, until I see
the screen to pick the user. In the meantime, Vista displays a Please Wait
screen.

I believe this began after applying several Windows Updates. I've installed
no other software recently. I manually applied KB938194 and KB938979 on
8/19. Automatic updates applied KB935652 on 8/20 and a Windows Update
software update (no KB mentioned in update history) on 8/22.

Anyone experienced this problem? Anyone applied the four updates above and
see any problems?

Running Vista Ultimate 32-bit. 2 GB RAM. P4 2.53 GHz. Raptor 150 GB SATA
with ~75 GB free.

I am having the same exact issue. Only thing that has been installed since it has starting occurring are windows updates, although not the same ones you listed.

Wanted to add that I'm using a ATI Radeon X1300 AGP graphics card with 256
MB RAM.

On Aug 25, 9:41 pm, "Jamie" <jwpear.n0...@sc.rr.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Within the last week or so,fast user switchinghas gone from fast to very
> slow. It takes 45-60 seconds, once a switch command is issued, until I see
> the screen to pick the user. In the meantime,Vistadisplays a Please Wait
> screen.
>
> I believe this began after applying several Windows Updates. I've installed
> no other software recently. I manually applied KB938194 and KB938979 on
> 8/19. Automatic updates applied KB935652 on 8/20 and a Windows Update
> software update (no KB mentioned in update history) on 8/22.
>
> Anyone experienced this problem? Anyone applied the four updates above and
> see any problems?
>
> RunningVistaUltimate 32-bit. 2 GB RAM. P4 2.53 GHz. Raptor 150 GB SATA
> with ~75 GB free.[/color]

I'm seeing the same thing on both Vista 64 and Vista 32. Saw a
reference that it may be related to anti-virus. Are you running AVG?

On Aug 27, 1:08 pm, TheSever...******.com wrote:[color=blue]
> On Aug 25, 9:41 pm, "Jamie" <jwpear.n0...@sc.rr.com> wrote:
>[color=green]
> > Within the last week or so,fast user switchinghas gone from fast to very
> >slow. It takes 45-60 seconds, once a switch command is issued, until I see
> > the screen to pick the user. In the meantime,Vistadisplays a Please Wait
> > screen.[/color]
>[color=green]
> > I believe this began after applying several Windows Updates. I've installed
> > no other software recently. I manually applied KB938194 and KB938979 on
> > 8/19. Automatic updates applied KB935652 on 8/20 and a Windows Update
> > software update (no KB mentioned in update history) on 8/22.[/color]
>[color=green]
> > Anyone experienced this problem? Anyone applied the four updates above and
> > see any problems?[/color]
>[color=green]
> > RunningVistaUltimate 32-bit. 2 GB RAM. P4 2.53 GHz. Raptor 150 GB SATA
> > with ~75 GB free.[/color]
>
> I'm seeing the same thing on bothVista64 andVista32. Saw a
> reference that it may be related to anti-virus. Are you running AVG?[/color]

Further information: I uninstalled AVG, restarted, and user switching
became normal again. However, after re-installing AVG, the problem has
not recurred.

During the reboot, Windows said it was installing and configuring
updates, so it may have been a Windows update (probably from 8/20)
that didn't force a reboot, but needed one.

I was not running AVG, but as of yesterday the User Switching is running pretty fast.

I had rebooted several times, trying to fix it, therefore i know it wasn't a lingering Windows Update waiting for a reboot.

Issue seems to be related to a pending restart due to update. Not sure why
Vista doesn't just reboot automatically after installs as it is configured
to do. Something hardware or software related is likely preventing the
automatic restart.

Manual restart clears up the slow switching. It's occured again since my
original problem. Manual restart cleared it up again.


"Jamie" <jwpear.n0spm@sc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:%23ALlIJ45HHA.2380@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Within the last week or so, fast user switching has gone from fast to very
> slow. It takes 45-60 seconds, once a switch command is issued, until I
> see the screen to pick the user. In the meantime, Vista displays a Please
> Wait screen.
>
> I believe this began after applying several Windows Updates. I've
> installed no other software recently. I manually applied KB938194 and
> KB938979 on 8/19. Automatic updates applied KB935652 on 8/20 and a
> Windows Update software update (no KB mentioned in update history) on
> 8/22.
>
> Anyone experienced this problem? Anyone applied the four updates above
> and see any problems?
>
> Running Vista Ultimate 32-bit. 2 GB RAM. P4 2.53 GHz. Raptor 150 GB
> SATA with ~75 GB free.
>
>[/color]

You are correct Jamie, I have noticed that trend to. Reason why I didn't think it was an update pending, was I rebooted I already had rebooted, but apparently there was another update pending that needed another reboot.
Now I just need to find out is what on my XP notebook does it take a while to bring up the login screen if I have Windows controlling the wireless network versus the 3rd party tool.