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

do you apply group policy settings? Are the apps installed there?

I found the cause ....

I had customized my default start screen following this :

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134269.aspx

I had appsfolderlayout.bin in there and as soon as I removed it, login time went below 15secs for new users.

Now I need to try the other 2 methods for customizing the start screen because I need to!

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

Run AutoRuns from sysinternals and look for the startup entries and disable the AppX Deployment entries if you don't want to install the Apps.

I don't see anything ... look at the autoruns log file ...

thanks for your help.

AutoRuns.7z

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

Do you install software? I see references to Shell32_ActiveSetup_RunOneInstallStub and those commands:

rundll32.exe AppXDeploymentExtensions.dll;ShellRefresh

Do you deploy apps via sideloading?

Not that I know of?

What would that be can you explain?

thanks

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

please compress it as 7z and upload it to a faster host (mediafire.com, zippyshare) or Dropbox.

Here you go.

http://www24.zippyshare.com/v/3394985/file.html

thanks again!

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

I unjoined the domain and still over 2mins first logon ... here is the new xml..

I don't get it! Explorerinit seems to take forever but nothing within it shows any trace of it being slow ...!

which AV tool do you use? Look at at the disk graph at this time. Is the disk busy? if yes, which process causes it.

No AV.

I don't seem to see anything slowing it down in the disk utilization ... can you please look at the etl file ?

here is the link :

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4pvmo7

thanks very much!

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

WinLogonInit and ExplorerInit are slow. I see you use GPOs. tweak them to as much as possible.

I unjoined the domain and still over 2mins first logon ... here is the new xml..

I don't get it! Explorerinit seems to take forever but nothing within it shows any trace of it being slow ...!

summary_boot.xml

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

Hi!

I am having a big problem with windows 8 :

We are in a windows domain, and the 1rst login takes 2-3+ mins.

Once a user has logged on, the following logins are very fast (max 10secs).

I see after following your instructions and doing the trace that it is the explorer step that is taking extremely long (over 170s).

Can you please help me? I don't see why it would do that !!

I will attach the xml.

summary_boot.xml