Root Cause Slow Boot/Slow Login With WPT

Chad SchultzPremier Field EngineerChad.a@Microsoft.com

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Top causes of slow boot/logon

GPOs

Start up/Logon scripts

Start up programs

Unstable drivers

Slow starting Windows Services

Known KB issues

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What is a good boot time?

Windows 8/8.1

HDD - < 75s

SSD - < 45s

Windows 7

HDD - < 90s

SSD - < 60s

Windows Vista

HDD - < 120s

SSD - < 75s

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Tools available to troubleshoot slow boot/logon

Windows Performance Toolkit

Process Monitor

Event Viewer (Vista+)

Autoruns

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Windows Performance Toolkit - Setup

Windows 8/8.1 ADK (Windows 7 and up)

Windows 7 SDK (Windows 7 and below)

Local install or download

Can copy just files to other machines and run

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Windows Performance Toolkit – Command Line

Simple boot trace:

Xbootmgr.exe -trace boot

Simple shutdown trace:

Xbootmgr.exe -trace shutdown

Simple hibernate trace:

Xbootmgr.exe -trace hibernate

Simple sleep/standby trace:

Xbootmgr.exe -trace Standby

In depth boot trace:

Xbootmgr.exe -trace boot -traceFlags latency+dispatcher -stackWalk Profile+ImageLoad+ProcessCreate+ThreadCreate+CSwitch+ReadyThread+ThreadCreate -postBootDelay 30 -resultPath c:\temp\

List traceFlags Groups

Xperf -providers KG

List stackWalk

Xperf -help stackwalk

Wprui.exe

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Windows Performance Toolkit – Graph Order

Boot Phases

Windows Logon

Services

Processes

Generic Events

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Windows Performance Toolkit

Demo traces

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Process Monitor Boot Trace

Check then reboot and run Procmon

Save as .PML

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Event Viewer

Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational

Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy/Operational

Events built off of trace that happens each boot, %systemroot%\wdi\Logfiles\BootCKCL.etl

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Autoruns http://live.sysinternals.com/tools/autoruns.exe

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Links Chad’s Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/b/chad

Yong Rhee’s Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/b/yongrhee

Jeff Stokes Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/b/jeff_stokes

Ask PFE Platforms Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/

Windows 8.1 RTM Assessment and Deployment Kit

http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/A/E/6AEA92B0-A412-4622-983E-5B305D2EBE56/adk/adksetup.exe

Windows 7 SDK

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8279

Sysinternals Tools

http://live.Sysinternals.com/tools

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Chad SchultzPremier Field Engineer(701) 610-1310www.microsoft.com/microsoftservices