MagicAndre1981

the trace was so large and unhandy that I only took a short look. Create a smaller file with the last command I provided. This limits the filesize to 256MB.

can you make a new boot trace? This time, also open the CAB file in the same folder, extract the file ReadyBoot.etl.old and run xperf -merge YOURTracefile.ETL ReadyBoot.etl.old FINALTARCEWITHReadyBoot.etl xbootmgr only includes the Readyboot events by dfault in Windows 7 or later. Have you checked the Disk graph? Is there still a process which causes high disk usgae?

I ave no idea value. But your time is too long. Have you used the normal 12.6 driver? The normal version should no longer support DirectX9/10 hardware. Maybe this causes the issues. the new Win8 version is more worse. It shows completely empty and you have to drag & drop the graphs you need. But new users simply don't what they need, but MS doesn't understand this nice to hear this. How long does Windows now boot? Generate the XML with the command in the "Trace tutorial" and look at the values.

go to Windows Update and install the Sp3

the new trace is much, much faster: <timing bootDoneViaExplorer="53824" bootDoneViaPostBoot="82624" osLoaderDuration="1769" postBootRequiredIdleTime="10000" postBootDisturbance="18800" so booting to desktop takes 53 s and your Windows is filly booted in 72s. PreSMSS is still slow: <interval name="PreSMSS" startTime="0" endTime="23548" duration="23548"> The ATI driver causes a long delay: Do you use the latest driver fro your ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT? if not try this one: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/catalyst126legacyproducts.aspx Starting the services and the Explorer takes very long. And this is mostly casues by Avast. When you doubleclick on the ETL and go to the graph you see that avast causes a really high Disk usage. So, try a different Av tool.

@Malumen my last reply was directed to you.

this has NOTHING to do with WindowsUpdate. The message to upgrade occurs if you try to login to the Messenger 2009.

no, why? I've already downloaded the file. Always use a download manger for such huge ISOs. This is safe.

I think it will be created when RTM is released. So wait 5 days.

ok, I got the file. 1GB uses 13GB of RAM in xperfview The trace has 1 large spike and this is the HAL.dll withthe function HalpHpetProgramRolloverTimer. Hpet = High Precision Event Timer. Try to disable this. Also next time run this: xperf -on latency -stackwalk profile -buffersize 1024 -MaxFile 256 -FileMode Circular && timeout -1 && xperf -d DPC_Interrupt.etl this limits the size to 256MB.

BootExecute has the value 'autocheck autochk *'. Is that what you mean? yes, this is what I want to know. Check your HDDs for errors. I can see you use external USB drives. Disconnect them before booting your PC. Maybe this causes the delay. I don't use the ATI Control Centre, so I could look at uninstalling and installing only the driver. yes do this. And yes, I can see high Disk IO usage. Avast has a large impact. It takes 50s to read the MFT of your HDD. I can also see that the Windows Search Service takes a long time to start.

source: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso So your file is corrupt.

Your Windows takes extremely long to boot: <timing bootDoneViaExplorer="323656" bootDoneViaPostBoot="345356" this is 5min and 23s to only boot to the desktop! The first delay is the PreSMSS phase. <interval name="PreSMSS" startTime="0" endTime="59993" duration="59993"> this takes nearly 50s.I can see that the enumeration of the IDE devices takes some time. Next starting some drivers takes a long time (6.7s for the HD Audio driver and Elby Clonedrive takes over 3s). The next big issue is that all your Wacom devices need each time 3s the enum and 3s to start. This sums up to 50s. Next delay happens in SMSS Init. I can see that the smss:BootExecuteList starts at 60s and ends at 80 seconds. So open regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager and look at the value BootExecute . Which programs are started there? Now WinlogonInit causes the longest delay: <interval name="WinlogonInit" startTime="89076" endTime="305907" duration="216831"> Here RequestCredentials takes most time. So enter your password faster. And finally starting all tools at login takes 11s. You can try to Disable the ATI Control Center and use other tools like ATI Tray Tools or MSI Afterburner. The ATI/AMD tools is coded in .Net and such apps can start slowly.

You can add the -postBootDelay XYZ Parameter to the command. This sets the post-boot delay (in seconds) before stopping the trace. So add 180-240s to capture 3-4 minutes after Windows booted completely.

you should zip and attach the dump here.

Run ProcMon in background to see what fails.

activate the DPC/ISR column and drag it to the left side. Columns on the left side of the yellow line order the output. Now expand the DPC CPU usage entry and look which processes cause it. If this is too complicated upload the zipped ETL file and send me a link.

and the desktop without Aero Glass is also ugly But the strange thing is, that Aero Glass is stil used, when you activate Aero Peek and the licence properties for Aero Glass are also stil present. So now we need a way to activate full Aero Glass Support gain, not this ugly workaroundwith the high contrast theme which activates an ugly Aero

the RTM is so ugly. The 5 new lockscreens are ugly and the new options to select the wallpapers are also ugly: which doesn't look nice if you use them You should really change the topic to "Deeper depressions". Windows 8 really has the worst and most ugly UI ever made ...

select the interval, click "clone selection", go to the "CPU sampling per process" graph, load the symbol, display the summary table of the CPU sampling, activate the stack column and move the CPU usage type (DPC/ISR, regular) to the left side to sort it. Now expend the stack at DPC and look which process causes the CPU usage. If this is too complicated, upload the trace file (zip it first!).

Download ProcessExplorer and hover with the mouse over the svchost.exe entry. Which services are started by this svchost.exe?

here it is needed. Not everyone wants to turn his PC into cesspool of viruses. 90% of the security issues only occur because user run with admin rights all the time

ok, I've created a new Win8 RTM x86 and x64 VM and no it works for both. I have no idea why it failed with the first VM. But Windows without Aero Glass looks so ugly

ACT = Application Compatibility Toolkit which is part of the Windows ADK I will never upgrade to 2011 because the ribbon in Live Mail uses too much vertical space. And you can't Mix the essentials version,so the 2011 setup will always update all installed 2009 versions

is this your BIOStar or Gigabyte board? Try to disable the onboard GPU on the Biostar. Mabe this helps.