TheWindowMan

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3.10 GHZ Asus M3N78-EM motherboard. 2x2GB DDR2 500GB SATA II HDD Nvidia GeForce 9800gt 1024mb Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (with all updates)

Thank You MagicAndre1981. Even after using the Open Elevated Command it didn't work, but i copied the bootPrep_BASE+CSWITCH_1 files to another partition on the drive. It worked. 01_summary_start bootDoneViaPostBoot="129079" 01_summary_end bootDoneViaPostBoot="90403" If i am right it reads 129secs and 90secs respectively. Are these timings good. It runs on Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with 4GB RAM and a processor clock speed of 3.10GHz

I disabled UAC, but still no go. Is there any other way that i can convert the .etl to .xml ?

Awesome , never knew this was possible. I followed all the steps and i see some time improvements, but when i run the export xml command i get an error message in the console. I cannot create the .xml result file to determine the time. Here is what i get in the CMD Shell. (Administrator Rights Enabled) C:\Windows\system32>xperf -i bootPrep_BASE+CSWITCH_1.etl -o 01_summary_start.xml -a boot xperf: warning: applying restriction of access for trace processing xperf: error: 01_summary_start.xml: Failed to open output file [0x80070005]. C:\Windows\system32>xperf -i boot_BASE+CSWITCH_1.etl -o 02_summary_end.xml -a boot xperf: warning: applying restriction of access for trace processing xperf: error: 02_summary_end.xml: Failed to open output file [0x80070005]. Thanks.