You may find that your server or dekstop is running very slowly. When you inspect task manager you see that “services.exe” is using alot or resources.here is information on how to find what is using these resources.
When you log on to a 2008 server you see message such as appliying group policy or applying settings, here is how to remove all logon messages in server 2008/sbs 2008 and 2011.