Subject: bug#12587: 24.2; Delayed startup, unresponsive Emacs in MS Windows when netlogon services is running in a domain

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:40:52 +0200

> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 12:05:47 +0200
> From: Mohammed Imaduddin Humayun <[email-masked]>
> 
> When netlogon service is running in the background on Windows (Win
> 7 here) in a networked domain (e.g. a pc/laptop on a university domain)
> starting Emacs usually fails or is miserably slow  although the 
> emacs.exe process

What's your value of w32-get-true-file-attributes?  Can you try
setting it in turn to each one of the 3 possible values, and see if
that helps?

If you can run Emacs under a debugger, I could ask you to check out
some more things.