[aboto]

MagicAndre1981, on 11 November 2010 - 08:21 AM, said:

aboto, on 10 November 2010 - 09:40 PM, said:

Thank you indeed. I will remove something as your suggestion. Kaspersky is to protect my computer from internet harmful attacks. So I may have to accept its usage time.

use a different tools (free tool) like Aivra AntiVir and the in Windows included Firewall.

Thank you, Andre! Windows 7 is known as a best OS, why are you still a Vista lover ? (Just for fun)

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PS: I want to ask you a marginal question: Do you know there are any way to install windows live mesh on XP? ( I am sorry for this question, but I just want to sync data between my two computers, one uses Xp OS and one is win7 OS)

[MagicAndre1981]

aboto, on 11 November 2010 - 10:41 AM, said:

Windows 7 is known as a best OS, why are you still a Vista lover ? (Just for fun)

Windows 7 = Vista R2/SE. Ask the second question in the XP forums.

[tookie]

MagicAndre1981, on 11 November 2010 - 08:46 AM, said:

The cause of the slow login is COMODO (cmdagent.exe) which scans all commands + MSE + you highly fragmented HDD which is used by 100%.

same suggestion like aboto. use Aivra AntiVir + Windows included Firewall and run the optimization again.

ok! thanks. glad to know those 2 are the only causes. i'll try other softwware, (and defragment my drives ) thank you very much ^^

[MagicAndre1981]

tookie, on 12 November 2010 - 06:01 AM, said:

(and defragment my drives ) thank you very much ^^

but only with this guide and the internal defrag tool! No O&O and other crapware!

[peacemaker]

Sorry I have a question here, my boot time did lessen but it's quite inconsistent for some reason... Like for example after I changed some minor settings and stuffs, the startup becomes very slow again...
So do I need to run the optimization everytime i change some startup program and install/uninstall stuffs?

[MagicAndre1981]

Which changes do you make that causes the slowdown?

[peacemaker]

Hmm, changing some bootup settings for avast for example.. or after install/uninstalling stuffs?

[peacemaker]

I just did a simple restart... It was slower again... Very inconsistent, sometimes it's faster.. I wonder what's the problem? So i was wondering whether I need to do this thing regularly?

Btw, I have tune-up utilities installed, would that be the factor that is affecting my inconsistent boot time?

[MagicAndre1981]

remove all useless tweaking and defrag tools and make the optimization again.

[peacemaker]

I just uninstalled Tune-Up utilities... still have the same problem... I did optimisation, improved to 30+ seconds boot time... But after that I had some windows update and some programs updated plus uninstalled some programs.. It became 10 seconds slower again...

[MagicAndre1981]

after running WindowsUpdates (Patchday) run it again.

[Kingdutch]

Hi,

I registered on this forum just for this topic, hopefully you can help me. I've did what your post said (Install WPT and run the xbootmgr command) with a little trouble (Had to change some registry values in order to get the defragmenter to work).
I've created an xml file using the xperf command and looked through it. My boot takes about 10-20 min. and it's doing a lot of DiskIO during the boot-up. Can you tell me why this is taking so long? (Malfunctioning HDD? Bad drivers? Fragmented?)

I used to run Defraggler but I'm running the built in defragmenter as we speak (Although analysis told me it was 0% defragmented). Hopefully you can tell me what I can do to reduce my boot-time.

Oh and I am running Comodo network security which seeing other posts here I suspect of slowing my computer down since I tried upgrading right when the slowness began, but I haven't heard a lot of good things about microsoft's security programs and comodo has worked fine for me so far.

http://rapidshare.co...68908/traces.7z
I couldn't find any personal info in there so I haven't passworded it. If you see anything personal, let me know and I'll take it down once you got it.

Thanks in advance
Alexander

[irvs]

This doesn't work for me?

Followed the instructions and get everything installed and verified all settings are on.

Ran it and the first time I let it countdown and didn't press FINISH. On next boot it said my copy of W7 was not genuine? OK, clicked authenticate and it did so immediately and continued. However, it couldn't find the PREFETCH and quit?

So I looked in the log, true it was logged as such, but on the first boot it was able too? Odd?

I'll just delete the files and try again, but press FINISH this time.

Same result?

Log : This time it is GONE? Found it, it is now not in the root of C: but Windows\System32?

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[2010/12/04-09:23:39.837] Detected Win7RTM physical (ReadyBoot) prefetcher; the SysMain service is auto-started.
[2010/12/04-09:23:39.872] Could not delete ReadyBoot boot plan.
[2010/12/04-09:23:39.880] Registering for auto-run with a 120000 msec delay...
[2010/12/04-09:23:39.881] Completed auto-run change.
[2010/12/04-09:23:39.896] Starting trace...
[2010/12/04-09:23:40.159] Enabled boot logging to 'C:\Windows\system32\bootPrep_BASE+CSWITCH_1_km_premerge.etl'
[2010/12/04-09:26:31.085] Detected Win7RTM physical (ReadyBoot) prefetcher; the SysMain service is auto-started.
[2010/12/04-09:26:31.116] Stopping trace...
[2010/12/04-09:27:23.958] Stopped kernel logger.
[2010/12/04-09:27:24.290] Stopped user-mode logger.
[2010/12/04-09:27:24.295] The trace you are capturing "C:\Windows\system32\bootPrep_BASE+CSWITCH_1.etl" may contain personally identifiable information, including but not necessarily limited to paths to files accessed, paths to registry accessed and process names. Exact information depends on the events that were logged. Please be aware of this when sharing out this trace with other people.
[2010/12/04-09:28:50.141] Merged ETL file to 'C:\Windows\system32\bootPrep_BASE+CSWITCH_1.etl'
[2010/12/04-09:28:50.159] Waiting for prefetcher...
[2010/12/04-09:29:20.161] Waiting for Win7RTM prefetcher done.
[2010/12/04-09:29:20.162] Saving prefetcher data...
[2010/12/04-09:29:20.182] Failed to save prefetcher data (C:\Windows\prefetch\layout.ini) in cab archive (stage 1, error 0)
[2010/12/04-09:29:27.965] Saved prefetcher data from C:\Windows\prefetch\ReadyBoot\*.* in cab archive.
[2010/12/04-09:29:27.965] Saved prefetcher data from C:\Windows\prefetch\AgCx*.db in cab archive.
[2010/12/04-09:29:28.312] Saved prefetcher data from C:\Windows\system32\bootPrep_BASE+CSWITCH_1.ppf.newPlan in cab archive
[2010/12/04-09:29:28.333] Starting trace...
[2010/12/04-09:29:28.365] Enabled boot logging to 'C:\Windows\system32\bootPrep_BASE+CSWITCH_2_km_premerge.etl'
[2010/12/04-09:31:26.720] Detected Win7RTM physical (ReadyBoot) prefetcher; the SysMain service is auto-started.
[2010/12/04-09:31:26.729] Stopping trace...
[2010/12/04-09:33:20.613] Stopped kernel logger.
[2010/12/04-09:33:20.614] Couldn't stop user-mode logger (0x00001069).
[2010/12/04-09:33:20.614] Couldn't find user-mode logger in active logger list.
[2010/12/04-09:33:20.617] Waiting for prefetcher...
[2010/12/04-09:38:10.643] Gave up waiting for Win7RTM physical prefetcher after 300 seconds.
[2010/12/04-09:38:10.643] Could not wait for prefetcher.
[2010/12/04-09:38:10.643] Stopping trace...
[2010/12/04-09:38:10.699] Couldn't find kernel logger in active logger list.
[2010/12/04-09:38:10.699] Couldn't find user-mode logger in active logger list.
[2010/12/04-09:38:10.700] Unregistering auto-run...
[2010/12/04-09:38:10.700] Completed auto-run change.
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Not sure what happened here? Any reason why it couldn't find Prefetch on the 2nd boot? Folder shows updates at the timestamps shown in the last part of the log?

Are there access/permissions problems possibly, can't tell for sure?

Irv S.

[MagicAndre1981]

Windows Error 0x00001069 - 4201
The instance name passed was not recognized as valid by a WMI data provider.
ERROR_WMI_INSTANCE_NOT_FOUND

Have you modified the WMI settings?

[irvs]

MagicAndre1981, on 04 December 2010 - 11:17 AM, said:

Windows Error 0x00001069 - 4201
The instance name passed was not recognized as valid by a WMI data provider.
ERROR_WMI_INSTANCE_NOT_FOUND

Have you modified the WMI settings?

Not that I know of?

I can run WBEMTEST, anything I should do with it?

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EDIT: I worked the first time though, didn't it? On the second boot it didn't?

This post has been edited by irvs: 04 December 2010 - 11:55 AM

[irvs]

BTW, I run as Administrator, and on the second boot when I pressed FINISH it did tell me to let the app run elevated when requested. Could that have been part of the problem? Should I run as the HIDDEN ADMINISTRATOR and do this?

Irv S.

[MagicAndre1981]

I'm also using the 2nd admin account which is created during setup ad it works fine. Do you use a firewall/AV software?

[MagicAndre1981]

Kingdutch, on 22 November 2010 - 11:12 AM, said:

I couldn't find any personal info in there so I haven't passworded it. If you see anything personal, let me know and I'll take it down once you got it.

Thanks in advance
Alexander

sorry, I overlooked your reply.

I can see that your HDD is completely busy. COMODO slows down your PC dramatically. Remove COMODO and run the optimization again.

[irvs]

MagicAndre1981, on 04 December 2010 - 01:29 PM, said:

I'm also using the 2nd admin account which is created during setup ad it works fine. Do you use a firewall/AV software?

Yes, I have Computer Associates ISS 2010.

Wouldn't that have interfered with the first running if it were a problem?

Think it pays to disable it completely?

Irv S.

[Kingdutch]

Hmm I tried uninstalling comodo and running the optimisations again, but it still took 10+ mins. and TBH I hated MSE so I got rid of that asap and reïnstalled comodo.
Is there any alternative to MSE that doesn't hog your PC? I've had Norton but I found it a bigger bload than Comodo and it costs money too.

I'm willing to try uninstalling comodo again and running the optimisations so you can take a look at that log. I haven't really had problems with comodo before as I have had that as long as I had this PC. Long before the slow down occured.

Thanks,
Kingdutch

This post has been edited by Kingdutch: 04 December 2010 - 02:42 PM