MagicAndre1981

as I said, this is by design since Vista. Enable this setting to show the drives.

no, he uses an Intel i7, so a normal x86 device.

create a scheduled task to logoff the current user if the system is idle for several minutes.

try a different media. Maybe the current one causes the slow start. Or you can insert the media each time after the boot. Or use Hibernation to avoid restarting all devices. Suspend/Resume of devices is much faster.

change the Userinit value under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon to a cmd script which first opens the link and after closing run C:\Windows\system32\userinit.exe. But I haven't tried if this works.

Set the option EnableLinkedConnections (DWORD) under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System to 1

The driver is fine. It is the device which is slow to start.

this is by design. I already asked this Microsoft some time ago. It also annoys me, too.

the long delay occurs by starting the ULTIMATE CF CARD ATA Device: - <phase name="bootStart" startTime="53" endTime="625731" duration="625677"> <pnpObject name="IDE\DiskULTIMATE_CF_CARD________________________Ver7.02K\5+2efc85c4+0+3.0.0" type="Device" activity="Start" startTime="5287" endTime="625301" duration="620014" prePendTime="620014" description="Disk drive" friendlyName="ULTIMATE CF CARD ATA Device" /> this delays boot for 626 seconds. Is this the adapter? In the trace I see the delay in CLASSPNP.SYS!ClassPnpStartDevice, so that's why you see the long classpnp.sys entry.

this is expected. I always prefer internal cards. external ones only cause this ugly USBport issues.

-noPrepReboot is only needed for shutdown or hibernation, but not for boot. Run this command please, which adds wait analysis: xbootmgr -trace boot -traceFlags BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER+LATENCY+DISK_IO_INIT+DISPATCHER+FILE_IO+FILE_IO_INIT+FILENAME -stackwalk profile+CSwitch+ReadyThread+DiskReadInit+DiskWriteInit -resultPath C:\Output compress the generated ETL as 7z/RAR, upload it and send me the link via PM.

thanks for the link.

I noticed that there were 2 update (Builds 1995 and 1998). What is changed in the updates? Can you please always post a proper changelog?

I use this one: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0088WOALW/ I see it has this switch, which I haven't seen before. I also haven't changed a setting of the switch.

I also boot Windows 7 on the laptop (VHD Boot) and I also have no DPC issues there.

I also use a HD Caddy in my Dell Laptop to use my old 1TB HDD side by side to my SSD where Windows + all applications is stored. And I have no issue at all.

Yes, the DPC usage comes from USB driver of Windows. And I comes from your USB Wireless Adapter (D-Link DWA-171 Wireless AC Dual Band Adapter) driver rtwlanu.sys. This is why I only use PCI(e) internal cards. I have no idea how to solve this because you already use the latest driver version (1024.4.0910.2013) I can find.

provide the xperf trace file (.etl)

yeah, ACPI.sys is causing the high CPU Usage. This is hard to debug. Have you asked the Sony Support?

maybe. If normal hibernation works, use it instead all the time (like I do)

the error code 0xC00000D4 means that Windows has issues to detect the correct drive: C:\Users\André>err 0xC00000D4# for hex 0xc00000d4 / decimal -1073741612 STATUS_NOT_SAME_DEVICE ntstatus.h# {Incorrect Volume}# The target file of a rename request is located on a# different device than the source of the rename request.# as an HRESULT: Severity: FAILURE (1), FACILITY_NULL (0x0), Code 0xd4# for hex 0xd4 / decimal 212 ERROR_LOCKED winerror.h# The segment is locked and cannot be reallocated.# 2 matches found for "0xC00000D4"Is your HDD fine? Again, does normal hibernation works fine or not?

You need the Windows 7 SDK under Vista (the tools from the Windows 8 SDK no longer work under Vista ): http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4847.install-the-windows-performance-toolkit-wpt/revision/2.aspx During setup, you can select to only get the WPT (you can uncheck all other tools)

does normal Hibernation works all the time? Look inside the eventlog, maybe you get a BSOD during resume, so that Windows restarts and boot the old school way.

You're welcome

The task LPRemove under \Microsoft\Windows\MUI triggers this lpksetup.exe call. You can try to disable this scheduled task if you don't want to move TEMP back to C:\. But moving system folders is often an issue.