MagicAndre1981

maybe this happens because you mix a CRT with a LCD. Why don't you use the LCD as default?

zip the dmp file and attach it here

I think it doesn't show because the delay only occurs when you activate the boot logging with F8. Now Windows runs in old 640*480 pixel mode which is slow to switch to the full resolution. This was also the cause for slow Vista boot issues. And I think this logging causes the issues.

ok, nice to hear that a new drive fixed it.

which hardware do you use?

run this command: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ntdebugging/archive/2009/08/17/xperf-to-investigate-slow-i-o-issues.aspx and give me the new trace.

boot is now much, much better: <timing bootDoneViaExplorer="25069" bootDoneViaPostBoot="40769" osLoaderDuration="2073" postBootRequiredIdleTime="10000" postBootDisturbance="5700" so booting to the desktop takes 25s and running all tools at startup only impacts Windows by 5.7s and Windows is fully booted in 30.7s I think this should be ok.

this is an example. Create a folder and name it what ever you want. You can also install this Tool: ContextConsole Shell Extension http://code.kliu.org/cmdopen/ to open a CMD with admin rights in every folder you want.

can you make some more traces? Add -numRuns X to the commandline (replace X with a number) to make several traces. Do you see the delay and xbootmgr doesn't capture them?

Your Windows boots in 36s to the desktop and is fully booted in 65s: <timing bootDoneViaExplorer="36634" bootDoneViaPostBoot="75334" What I can see is that 2 services start slowly: <serviceTransition name="MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS" group="" transition="start" totalTransitionTimeDelta="8525" <serviceTransition name="WSearch" group="" transition="start" totalTransitionTimeDelta="8668" if you don't need MS SQL Server Express all the time, start the service on demand. The largest delay is caused by starting all apps at logon. Do you really need all those Logitech tools at startup?

I can't see such an delay. Your Windows boots in 31s to the desktop and is fully booted in 61s: timing bootDoneViaExplorer="31063" bootDoneViaPostBoot="71563"

chrome doesn't cause hardfaults, but like DWM it use 100% of the DISk for some time: The SMART values should be fine. Do you use the Intel or MSFT AHCI drivers?

which network card do you use?

ah, ok, I've used the Win7 xperfview t open it I looked at the hardfault graph and looked at the summary table of the spikes and looks lie Defender is the cause. I'm always disabling Defender, it is the worst crap. Also Google Chrome and the DWM services uses the disk extremely (it takes over 2s to load the C:\Windows\System32\d3d11.dll) which is a few kB. Is your TOSHIBA MK6465GSX ok? Have you checked the SMART values?

the only delay you may see is the run of the program which his added in the key BootExecuteList and the Initialization of the registry: There is also a small delay (2.5s) where Windows tries to enum all IDE divices: <phase name="bootStart" startTime="30" endTime="3249" duration="3218"> <pnpObject name="PCIIDE\IDEChannel\4+21254128+0+0" type="Device" activity="Enum" startTime="267" endTime="2779" duration="2511" prePendTime="0" description="IDE Channel" friendlyName="ATA Channel 0" /> Also starting AntiVir service takes 11s: The largest delay is the run of all startup programs which takes 30.5s ( postBootDisturbance="30500") Uninstall tools like the AMD Control Center and other stuff you don't need.

which Antivirus software do you use?

please use the Windows 8 version of the WPT which is part of the Windows 8 ADK http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/hardware/gg454513 and make a new trace. From what I can see it maybe Windows Defender, but the old xperf version was not avle to capture proper process names.

Look at the smart values with tools like AIDA64, HWiNFO or CrystalDiskInfo

5s google: http://www.ehow.com/how_5444026_bios-macbook.html

compress the large ETL as 7z, this dramatically reduces the size.

Installxperfand run this command from a CMD with admin rights: xperf -on latency+ ALL_FAULTS -stackwalk profile -buffersize 1024 -MaxFile 256 -FileMode Circular && timeout -1 && xperf -d Hardfaulttraceetl wait until you get the issue, go to the cmd and press a key to stop logging. Zip the file and upload it.

if you use the Pro or Enterprise yu can boot Windows from a VHD:

ok

Windows 8 RTM is now download-able from Technet if you have a subscription: http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/subscriptions/downloads/#searchTerm=&ProductFamilyId=481&Languages=en,de&PageSize=10&PageIndex=0&FileId=0