Group policy tweak: Reduce the amount of time it takes for a user to log out *** Load the group policy configuration: See here if you're not sure how to do that. In group policy, go into: Local Computer Policy Administrative Templates System Login double-click on 'maximum retries to unload and update user profile'. Enable it, and set a value like '2', so it only tries twice to save the profile. It is possible that some application is causing problems, so if you get lots of profile saving issues still, then troubleshoot from that point of view. Modified: 16/03/2005, Michael Coppins. Tested on: Win2k, XP. www.mikeymike.org.uk