Posting the result of nslookup and ipconfig /all may help.

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"A Lake" wrote in message
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No errors logged - either before or after the reboot.

I enabled verbose logging as well, and this still shows 'Applying Personal
Settings'

Theres no hard drive activity, yet I can ping the network card and connect
to the remote management from another pc OK.

This has happened several times again since I first posted. Again
different
pcs on different subnets and a reboot sorts the problem!
"Bob Lin (MS-MVP)" wrote:

Any errors in the Event Viewer?

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"A Lake" wrote in message
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I've got a network of around 500 PCs running XP Sp2/Sp3 and 2003
Servers.
Occasionally (around 15-20 in the last 4 weeks) a PC hangs at the Apply
Personal Settings stage. After waiting for 10 minutes or so, switching
PC
off
and on again is the only solution.

There seems to be no problem with DNS, rebooting the PC makes it work
fine
again - and when the PC has hung at this stage I can still connect to
it
using the Computer managerment console so it seems unlikely to be a
networking issue?

The only thing I've noticed is that out of the 15-20 PCs affected, none
of
them have done it twice (yet!) and all of them are different ages,
manufacturers and on several different subnets!

Any suggestions are where to look next? I'm a bit stumped on this on.