Hello Andre, the work you've done to help out others is applaudable. My bootup recently has been real slow. After the Windows 8 splash screen disappears there is a blank screen for a good 7~9 seconds, and the laptop becomes almost unresponsive, sometimes tapping the space bar speeds up the logon screen. I believe it is the 'SMSSINT" phase (not sure though). Can you help me locate where the problem lies? Alienware M11x R2 i5 520um 8gb ddr3 256ssd 470 samsung Windows 8 Here is my summary boot (http://www.filedropper.com/summaryboot) You've also requested of users an etl file. Is that the file analysed by Windows Performance Analyser trace file with the big size ~250mb?