Root Cause Slow
Boot/Slow Login
With WPT
Chad Schultz
Premier Field Engineer
[email protected]
10/26/2013
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 SDK
Local install or download
Can copy just files to other machines
and run
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Windows
Performance
Toolkit –
Command
Line
Xbootmgr.exe -trace boot
Xbootmgr.exe -trace shutdown
Xbootmgr.exe -trace hibernate
Xbootmgr.exe -trace Standby
Xbootmgr.exe -trace boot -traceFlags latency+dispatcher -stackWalk
Profile+ImageLoad+ProcessCreate+ThreadCreate+CSwitch+Read
yThread+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
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Autoruns
http://live.sysinternals.com/tools/auto
runs.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-A412-4622-983E5B305D2EBE56/adk/adksetup.exe
Windows 7 SDK
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8279
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Contact
Chad Schultz
Premier Field Engineer
(701) 610-1310
www.microsoft.com/microsoftservices
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