[jpursell84]

When I boot up my MacBook Pro Core2Duo, it runs perfectly until I get to the user login screen. When I click in the box to type in my password, as soon as I start to type, the beach ball starts spinning and my password does not show. After about 2-3 minutes, the password shows. I click the Login button, and the beach ball spins again for about 5-10 minutes before it very slowly loads my desktop.

I first noticed the extreme lag after installing Security Update 2007-001. I just installed Security Update 2007-002 today, and it literally took me 45 minutes to get logged into my computer. This is extremely frustrating.

What can I do to get my computer to login normally. I even tried ENABLING AUTO LOGIN, but it still makes me login after the grey screen w/ apple logo. I'm not really sure why it is making me do that either. Reguardless if the System Preferences box for "disable auto-login" is checked or not, my computer still forces me to login.

I've seen something about doing an Install and Archive to rid the computer of security updates installed. Would this make a difference in this case?

[Thinine]

I'm thinking you either have something running at login that's gumming up the works or the system is looking for a remote server that it can't find and not timing out for a while. An Archive and Install should get rid of either of those, but you should try making a new user account first. If that account logs in normally, than the problem lies with your account, and an A&I won't fix it.

[jpursell84]

how can i find what would be running at the startup? i dont understand how something could be running before i even long into my account.

[JKT]

What happens if you do a safe boot (hold down shift and keep it held down as you launch the OS). This will disable any third party frameworks and drivers from loading (and things like mouse and printer drivers, etc will load before you log-in). If things are back to normal, then you have a driver or framework installed that is incompatible with the OS.

[jpursell84]

JKT, thanks for the safe boot idea...I did perform a safe boot and OS X loaded right up.

I'm curious now as to how to know what the bad driver/framework could be. Is there any utility I could run to pinpoint the problem?

Also, I still have no idea why my computer is still forcing me to login to OS X as I have auto-login enabled.

[Simon]

Have you tired setting up a new user account and setting auto-login to that account?

Check /System/Library/Startup Items to see what gets loaded before a user logs in.

[jpursell84]

Will it make a difference whether I set the user account to have Administrative privelages for testing this problem?

[Thinine]

It shouldn't, though you should anyway, just to make it more like your current account.

[himself]

Do you have Application Enhancer (APE) installed?

[jpursell84]

I don't believe I have APE installed...I know I didn't install it directly. Do you know if that is something that is bundled in with other software?

[himself]

Originally Posted by jpursell84 

I don't believe I have APE installed...I know I didn't install it directly. Do you know if that is something that is bundled in with other software?

Then I guess you don't have to worry about that then.

[GoldFenster]

I am seeing the same behavior in my Macbook Pro also. I booted in safe mode as you recommended and things worked fine.

I then created a new account with administrative access and it behaves as before (takes 3-5 minutes to go from the login screen to desktop). I also rebuilt all the permissions.

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

[GoldFenster]

Another interesting piece of info that might help. This does not occur when I am plugged into a hard line network connection, like at work. This seems to be a problem when I login and only have a wireless connection.

Could it be something related to the airport extreme?