Slow startup and/or logon times with Windows 7?

Our users were complaining of slow startup and logon performance with our Windows 7 fleet.  We got Microsoft in.  One of the things they recommended was deploying two hotfixes:

An update that improves the startup performance of Windows 7 and of Windows Server 2008 R2 is available
Svchost.exe holds a lock on a service when the libraries for the service are loaded. This behavior prevents other services in the same Svchost.exe instance from starting until the call to the LoadLibrary function is returned.

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You experience a long domain logon time in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 after you deploy Group Policy preferences to the computer
Issue 1
Assume that you have a client computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 in a domain environment. You deploy Group Policy preferences (GPP) to the client computer by using item-level targeting using security groups. In this situation, a user of the client computer experiences a long domain logon time. This issue becomes more noticeable if the domain controller is only reachable over a slow link.
Issue 2
When you apply GPP by using item level targeting for security groups, local ports are leaked in an OPEN_WAIT state. After some time, the nonpaged pool is depleted and the computer stops responding.

They both worked very well in our environment.