[Question] Troubleshooting with event viewer ?

[grafx1]

i'd read some articles about event viewer in Vista and how you can track errors and slow boots, but there is no key on how to solve those problems !!

for example i've some services or drivers took much time to start so it slow my boot reported in the event viewer, so how can i fix this ??

Thanks...

[cluberti]

Take a look in Event Viewer under Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > Diagnostics-Performance > Operational

[grafx1]

Take a look in Event Viewer under Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > Diagnostics-Performance > Operational

that's what i'd done !! what to do with a service or a driver delaying booting ??

[fizban2]

is this a windows service? or a 3 rd party service or driver?

[cluberti]

There's nothing above and beyond this to "troubleshoot" problems, just report them. If you have a driver or service slowing boot down, you need to figure out if it's a Microsoft driver or service or something non-Microsoft first. Once you've figured that out, consider using msconfig to disable that driver or service to see if the boot time improves - if so, there's not a whole heck of a lot that can be done other than running Process Monitor in boot logging mode to get a little more info (but I do stress "little"), and making sure you have the latest version of whatever it is slowing boot down installed and configured properly.