[Trace why Windows 8 boots, shutsdown or hibernates slowly]

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opening the key \Registry\MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\FileSystems\Ntfs takes so much time. Open regedit.exe and look which data you have in this key.

There is no \FileSystems\ ?

[Trace why Windows 8 boots, shutsdown or hibernates slowly]

smss.exe runs so long because autochk runs during boot (smss:BootExecute)

I stopped autochk from running, there is no difference in boot time.

[Trace why Windows 8 boots, shutsdown or hibernates slowly]

the trace shows autochk runs at this time. Delete the autochk entry from BootExecute in the registry and run chkdsk yourself.

Again there was little to no difference in boot time.

Any idea why smss.exe would be taking so long?

[Trace why Windows 8 boots, shutsdown or hibernates slowly]

you have disk IO. Check if Autochk.exe is the cause (click on the left icon next to the disk io graph)

If you use fast boot, run the faststartup xbootmgr command at the end of the guide. You did the normal "old-school" boot.

All I got from the graph was ' System Processes (4) '

Also I renamed Autochk.exe, but there was no difference in the boot time.

[Trace why Windows 8 boots, shutsdown or hibernates slowly]

SMSSInit is very slow.

<interval name="SMSSInit" startTime="5376" endTime="429690" duration="424314">

I need the ETL file to see more. Why are you not using the new fast startup?

The fast startup option in the power options? I am using it.

My ETL is 100mb

[Trace why Windows 8 boots, shutsdown or hibernates slowly]

is this normal?

yes, those are 3 critical Windows processes which run all the time. Ignore this.

I was asking because my fresh install of Windows 8 takes 5+ minutes or so to boot.

summary_boot.xml

[Trace why Windows 8 boots, shutsdown or hibernates slowly]

<unexpectedLonglived>

<process name="smss.exe" startTime="5376" endTime="-1" lifetime="-1"/>

<process name="csrss.exe" startTime="426505" endTime="-1" lifetime="-1"/>

<process name="csrss.exe" startTime="428346" endTime="-1" lifetime="-1"/>

is this normal?