Thanks for responding. My first thought was that it is the OracleXE service but setting it to manual appears to make no difference, have also set other servives to manual but am now getting strange results as below <serviceTransition name="wscsvc" group="" transition="start" totalTransitionTimeDelta="9223371778124" firstCheckpointTimeDelta="2" processingTimeDelta="9223371778123" container="unknown" startedAt="258730" firstCheckpointedAt="258732" endedAt="-1"/> summary_boot1.xml