darkgreen Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 Hi All, long time lurker here. Finally registered to share something odd and hope for help. I have a super speedy computer (i7, 12GB ram, Intel XM-25 SSD for boot drive). It used to boot super fast, then earlier today I installed the Windows virtual machine tool and Windows XP virtual machine to try out. Now I sit at the "Starting Windows" screen for 3 solid minutes (versus 10 seconds before). I've seen people on this forum do great things with eventlogs so I was hoping someone could see something I can't. I'm going to put up my before and after event logs ... Here is a speedy boot in eventlog BEFORE everything went to heck. MainPathBootTime: 10860 + System - Provider [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance [ Guid] {CFC18EC0-96B1-4EBA-961B-622CAEE05B0A} EventID 100 Version 2 Level 3 Task 4002 Opcode 34 Keywords 0x8000000000010000 - TimeCreated [ SystemTime] 2009-06-19T17:54:00.522636300Z EventRecordID 185 - Correlation [ ActivityID] {02EBF930-F800-0006-D1A4-9A9C06F1C901} - Execution [ ProcessID] 1072 [ ThreadID] 2444 Channel Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational Computer Z1 - Security [ UserID] S-1-5-19 - EventData BootTsVersion 2 BootStartTime 2009-06-19T17:51:45.624800200Z BootEndTime 2009-06-19T17:53:56.185828700Z SystemBootInstance 53 UserBootInstance 51 BootTime 21660 MainPathBootTime 10860 BootKernelInitTime 19 BootDriverInitTime 254 BootDevicesInitTime 3676 BootPrefetchInitTime 7939 BootPrefetchBytes 470425600 BootAutoChkTime 0 BootSmssInitTime 5265 BootCriticalServicesInitTime 206 BootUserProfileProcessingTime 110 BootMachineProfileProcessingTime 0 BootExplorerInitTime 534 BootNumStartupApps 13 BootPostBootTime 10800 BootIsRebootAfterInstall false BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits 0 BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits 0 BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits 0 BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits 0 BootIsDegradation false BootIsStepDegradation false BootIsGradualDegradation false BootImprovementDelta 0 BootDegradationDelta 0 BootIsRootCauseIdentified false OSLoaderDuration 703 BootPNPInitStartTimeMS 19 BootPNPInitDuration 3759 OtherKernelInitDuration 796 SystemPNPInitStartTimeMS 4550 SystemPNPInitDuration 171 SessionInitStartTimeMS 4727 Session0InitDuration 2571 Session1InitDuration 895 SessionInitOtherDuration 1798 WinLogonStartTimeMS 9992 OtherLogonInitActivityDuration 221 UserLogonWaitDuration 8462 And here is an eventlog now, MainPathBootTime is 173868, or 17x longer! + System - Provider [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance [ Guid] {CFC18EC0-96B1-4EBA-961B-622CAEE05B0A} EventID 100 Version 2 Level 1 Task 4002 Opcode 34 Keywords 0x8000000000010000 - TimeCreated [ SystemTime] 2009-06-21T02:29:00.559118600Z EventRecordID 209 - Correlation [ ActivityID] {02EB3910-F800-0002-CE21-891517F2C901} - Execution [ ProcessID] 1080 [ ThreadID] 1164 Channel Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational Computer Z1 - Security [ UserID] S-1-5-19 - EventData BootTsVersion 2 BootStartTime 2009-06-21T02:22:11.624800200Z BootEndTime 2009-06-21T02:28:55.145909100Z SystemBootInstance 63 UserBootInstance 61 BootTime 185168 MainPathBootTime 173868 BootKernelInitTime 19 BootDriverInitTime 239 BootDevicesInitTime 165517 BootPrefetchInitTime 0 BootPrefetchBytes 0 BootAutoChkTime 0 BootSmssInitTime 5998 BootCriticalServicesInitTime 193 BootUserProfileProcessingTime 213 BootMachineProfileProcessingTime 0 BootExplorerInitTime 592 BootNumStartupApps 13 BootPostBootTime 11300 BootIsRebootAfterInstall false BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits 128 BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits 192 BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits 8 BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits 8 BootIsDegradation false BootIsStepDegradation false BootIsGradualDegradation false BootImprovementDelta 0 BootDegradationDelta 0 BootIsRootCauseIdentified true OSLoaderDuration 619 BootPNPInitStartTimeMS 19 BootPNPInitDuration 165597 OtherKernelInitDuration 1094 SystemPNPInitStartTimeMS 166650 SystemPNPInitDuration 158 SessionInitStartTimeMS 166851 Session0InitDuration 3163 Session1InitDuration 893 SessionInitOtherDuration 1941 WinLogonStartTimeMS 172849 OtherLogonInitActivityDuration 213 UserLogonWaitDuration 139826 Since this happened I've tried system recovery, then undoing system recovery when it didn't help. I've also checked some other applications to make sure it isn't the well known Intel XM-25 fragmentation issue. Oh, yes, Win 7 Build 7100 RC :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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