Solved! Login Failed, slow logins, winlogon notification subscriber gpclient error taking 450 seconds to boot

A client was having an issue logging into their computer.  First was a blue screen with the login failed because the unique identifier is not supported.  After fixing that issue, We faced two errors today with our roaming profile. Error 1: First logon fails with “The universal unique identifier (UUID) type is not supported Error 2: Here is the winlogin notification about the gpclient in event viewer we received after taking 10 minutes to login.

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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-066 – Critical November 11, 2014

Microsoft has released a critical patch via Windows Update that seals up a vulnerability that affects every modern version of Windows, including Windows Server 2003/2008/2012, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, and Windows RT. 1 The patch, dubbed MS14-066, shores up a hole that would have allowed an attacker to remotely trigger code on your machine using specially crafted packets. Microsoft says they don’t know of any exploits that have actually used this, but it’s still…

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