What is shell load time in Logon Monitor

[sjesse]

Hi

UEM 9.3

Horizon 9.4

Windows 10 1703

App volumes 2.13.3

I finally have a semi acceptable windows 10 image, logging in around 36 seconds, with basically no user applied gpos. Folder redirection is being done through UEM, including AppData(sigh... this is a requirement I have to follow).The longest delay is Shell Load time, and I don't always see this in the other forum posts. The flings site says

Shell load time is a custom calculation within VMLM.

Where can I start to determine what this is. I'd really love to get these logon times under 30 seconds, so shaving 6-7 seconds off that shell load time would be awesome.Without app volumes its around 6-8 seconds, and the total logon time drops around 8 seconds to 28 seconds.

[ArnoM · Accepted solution]

The shell load time is the time it takes for the Window shell to load, i.e. Explorer.

Shell load time starts when Logon Monitor receives a notification from Windows when shell load is starting. It ends when the taskbar window is created.

Here you can find a nice thread which discusses a lot of options to increase login performance: Acceptable Horizon Desktop Logon Time?