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MagicAndre1981, on 17 August 2012 - 02:26 PM, said:

Your Windows boots in 36s to the desktop and is fully booted in 65s:

 <timing bootDoneViaExplorer="36634" bootDoneViaPostBoot="75334"

What I can see is that 2 services start slowly:

<serviceTransition name="MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS" group="" transition="start" totalTransitionTimeDelta="8525"
<serviceTransition name="WSearch" group="" transition="start" totalTransitionTimeDelta="8668" 
 

if you don't need MS SQL Server Express all the time, start the service on demand.

The largest delay is caused by starting all apps at logon. Do you really need all those Logitech tools at startup?

I don't, they must have popped in with Visual Studio, or something else.

How many Logitech tools do I have at startup? I thought I only had one (setpoint). I thought I disabled like my webcam, and what not. I'll disable the entry in MSCONFIG for Logitech anyways.

What other applications are starting up? I try to keep stuff clean in MSCONFIG and services. I'm new to working in the services section so I'm sure there must be stuff I'm missing. But in MSCONFIG I only have:

MSE
Realtek HD Audio Manger
HD Audio Background Process
Microsoft Windows Operating System
JMB36X IDE Setup
USB 3.0 Monitor
Dropbox

I feel like one of those audio items can be disabled, but I'm not sure which one. The Windows OS one is for gadgets, JMB I'm pretty sure is for my external esata drive, and I think I need the USB3 for my USB3 ports to work. Dropbox I guess could be disabled, and I could just start it up manually, but I like the convenience of it starting on its own. Since I use it a lot.

But, I'll disable some of the above, and see what happens. Are there any other stuff starting up that I did not mention above?

Thanks for the boot trace decrypt

https://dl.dropbox.c.../boottrace2.rar

There is a more updated boot trace. After turning some stuff off, and some more.

This post has been edited by microboom: 17 August 2012 - 05:44 PM

[MagicAndre1981]

boot is now much, much better:

<timing bootDoneViaExplorer="25069" bootDoneViaPostBoot="40769" osLoaderDuration="2073" postBootRequiredIdleTime="10000" postBootDisturbance="5700" 

so booting to the desktop takes 25s and running all tools at startup only impacts Windows by 5.7s and Windows is fully booted in 30.7s

I think this should be ok.

[microboom]

Thanks for your help!

[ElGringo]

Hi, i have with success done the trick for speeding up my system boot, but now i have a small question... is the xbootmgr.exe the cause i now have apparently new files in the Windows/Prefetch/Readyboot folder?
Those files have extension *.avail, *.dqpafm, *..dqpafmsg, *.dqpa, *.dqpaf and seems to be refreshed after every bootup. Are they necessary for the OS, or only a logging purpose? They also make extra hard disk activity immediately after the system seems to be operational.
Thanks in advance for any help, and sorry for my bad english...

[MagicAndre1981]

those files belongs to ReadyBoot, the advanced prefetcher which makes Windows booting faster.

[ElGringo]

MagicAndre1981, on 27 August 2012 - 02:50 PM, said:

those files belongs to ReadyBoot, the advanced prefetcher which makes Windows booting faster.

Last week i have formatted and installed in a brand new laptop Windows 7 Home X86 Service Pack 1 (with all Windows Updates), and i see in this folder only five Trace*.fx files, with one Readyboot.etl file. I have also rebooted it so many times, but the new files that i have in my pc don't appear in the laptop. Sounds strange

This post has been edited by ElGringo: 27 August 2012 - 04:32 PM

[MagicAndre1981]

Simply ignore the new files.

[vladv]

MagicAndre1981,I tried the boot optimization process you suggest in this guide.But it seems that I get those two error popups after only one reboot , I get the following messages: first one is ” Waiting for prefetcher...” which stays on screen around 3 minutes or so and after that comes this one:” Microsoft Windows Performance Analyser : Gave up waiting for virtual prefetcher after 300 seconds.Could not wait for prefetcher.Couldnt find kernel logger in active logger list.Couldnt find user-mode logger in active logger list” and no more boot from now on (it should be 5 more times , or not ?),please help me with this problem when you have the time!

[MagicAndre1981]

First, update the WPT. I've replaced the links with the Win8 version and if this doesn't help, try the suggestions from here:

http://social.msdn.m...d6-e466c07e1a2f

[MagicAndre1981]

Does it work now?

[fashionista17]

how can i fix this?

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[MagicAndre1981]

looks like you are using the 64bit version on a 32Bit Windows Vista. On a 32Bit Windows you can only use the 32Bit version.

This post has been edited by MagicAndre1981: 17 September 2012 - 09:11 AM

[fashionista17]

how may i know if d version installed is 32bit or 64bit?.. it has d same pop up message when i tried to click xbootmgr.exe in its folder...

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[ElGringo]

fashionista17, on 17 September 2012 - 09:32 AM, said:

how may i know if d version installed is 32bit or 64bit?.. it has d same pop up message when i tried to click xbootmgr.exe in its folder...

Just right-click on Computer icon --> Properties, and in the new window it will show you your os version , also the installer is named "wpt_x86.msi" for the 32 bit version and "wpt_x64.msi" for the 64 bit version.

This post has been edited by ElGringo: 17 September 2012 - 11:33 AM

[MagicAndre1981]

@fashionista17

Does it work now?

[Blaatschaap]

Hey guys, I've been trying to get this running on windows 7 using the following code:
xbootmgr -trace boot -postBootDelay 240 -prepSystem -verboseReadyBoot

However, the postBootDelay seems to be ignored. I need to have the postBootDelay since I get -1 for bootDoneViaPostBoot. It did work with
xbootmgr -trace boot -traceFlags BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER -postBootDelay 300 -resultPath [...]
But this doesn't really seem to change anything, just log the results.

Can anyone help me?

Cheers.

[MagicAndre1981]

I've never used it in this combination. You should look at the normal boot trace and disable the tools which slow down boot and after doing this, run the normal prepSystem command.

[scf2]

Hello,

6 days ago i have bought a new HP 17.3" Pavilion G7-2003SD - i7 3612QM/4GB/500GB AMD Radeon HD7670M , but the overall speed dissapoint me a little. So after i have followed these (http://www.pcmtechhe...der-10-minutes/) steps to increase overall speed, the boot speed was still slow. After some searching i saw this topic and followed your steps. Boot time increased from Bootdoneviapostboot= 200270 to Bootdoneviapostboot=102626 , but even after that ik takes long to go from the login screen to the desktop. So i am wondering if the steps that i followed (and the results above) were only for the boot time to your login screen or the ''total time'' from start up to desktop? And how can i inprove the speed from login screen to desktop and is it normal for an new notebook to have this kind of problems or should i bring it back?

Thank you for your help,

Yannick

[MagicAndre1981]

Do you map network drives? They often cause slow login.

You can also upload the latest ETL file, so that I can take a look what is wrong with your Windows.

[scf2]

MagicAndre1981, on 05 December 2012 - 01:09 PM, said:

Do you map network drives? They often cause slow login.

You can also upload the latest ETL file, so that I can take a look what is wrong with your Windows.

Im not familiar with both terms, but map network driver are that maps where you can store things over the internet? So you can share files between computers stored in a map? I can pick files from my old computer using wireless internet, if thats what you mean? I have attached two pictures of it.

How can i get an ETL file of windows and how can i upload such a file?

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