Configuring Group Policy Processing

Beginning with Windows Vista, there are two policy settings you can configure that affect how Group Policy processing is performed:

• Turn Off Local Group Policy Objects Processing This policy setting is found under Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\System\Group Policy. Enabling this policy setting prevents LGPOs from being applied when Group Policy is processed on the computer.
  Warning Do not enable this policy setting within LGPOs on a stand-alone computer; the Group Policy service does not honor this policy setting from an LGPO when in a workgroup. Enable this policy only on domain-based GPOs if you want to disable application of LGPOs completely during Group Policy processing.
• Startup Policy Processing Wait Time This policy setting is found under Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\System\Group Policy. Enabling and configuring this policy setting determines how long Group Policy must wait for network availability notifications during startup policy processing. The default value for this policy setting when it is enabled is 120 seconds, and configuring this policy setting overrides any system-determined wait times. (The default wait time for computers running Windows 7 is 30 seconds.) If you are using synchronous startup policy processing, the computer is blocked until the network becomes available or the configured wait time is reached. If you are using asynchronous startup policy processing, the computer is not blocked and policy processing takes place in the background. In either case, configuring this policy setting overrides any system-computed wait times.