Startup is really slow for all Cygwin applications

Question

Start of any Cygwin application takes more than a minute on Windows 8.1 x64. It doesn\'t matter, either I\'m starting mintty from shortcut or

Answer 1

If you are on a network with a large AD directory mkpasswd will take a lot of time (several days in my case). So consider using:

mkpasswd -c -l > /etc/passwd
mkgroup -c -l > /etc/group

 -l,--local [machine]    Print local user accounts of \"machine\",
                         from local machine if no machine specified.
                         Automatically adding machine prefix for local
                         machine depends on settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf.