Trace Windows 7 boot/shutdown/hibernate/standby/resume issues

[MagicAndre1981]

the trace is saved in C:\temp. Open a cmd there and run the command I posted in the first post to generate the XML.

[harakiro]

I upgraded my hdd to a hybrid SSD and rebuilt my system and ever since resuming from hibernation has been horrible taking up to 2 min. However, booting takes ~20 seconds consistently.

I ran the performance tool and not really knowing what I'm looking for I can't see anything at first scan that seems obviously wrong.

Here is a link of my etl file for review:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5698994/hibernate_BASE%2BCSWITCH%2BDRIVERS%2BPOWER_1.zip

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Jesse

[MagicAndre1981]

reading the hibernation file is slow:

hiberpageswritten="207248" hiberread="91739000" resume="2803000">

that are 91s. Disable hibernation, defrag the HDD and enable hibernation again. Does this improve it?

[harakiro]

This was a fresh install of windows. However, I tried your suggestion, de-fragmented my hd, rebooted and then tested going into hibernation, things are still slow. I next totally disabled hibernation and rebooted, re-enabled hibernation and tested, the restart from hibernation was still slow.

Thanks for any help

[MagicAndre1981]

update the firmware of the HDD and look if this improves it.

[harakiro]

Drivers do not exist from my HDD. It is a SATA Momentus XT ST750LX003 750 Gb.

I do however have installed Intel Rapid storage drivers, and have updated this to the latest version.

I have Write-caching enabled on the drive.

But I'm still not seeing any improvement. =(

[MagicAndre1981]

I have no idea how to fix this. is this an OEM PC? if yes, phone their support.

[Magoo]

Seem to be having a slow boot problem with my machine.

Here is my .etl and .xml file in a .rar file:

http://rapidshare.com/share/70E79A921EE2EE3766BC90470B5F800D

or

http://www.mediafire.com/?rpau3hdtddwh1f1

If you could please have a look, it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Magoo

Edited October 7, 2013 by Magoo

[MagicAndre1981]

slow boot? Your Windows boots in 10s to the desktop and is fully booted in 11s:

- <timing bootDoneViaExplorer="10486" bootDoneViaPostBoot="21086" postBootDisturbance="600"

Your Samsung SSD 840 PRO does a very good job.

[ScottyDoesKnow]

I'll start by saying thanks so much for this tutorial. Really easy to follow.

I'm a bit stuck now though. My issue is in the "Please wait" part of the bootup (logon screen background is up but you can't logon yet), it takes about 50 seconds on a brand new laptop with SSD. I may be crazy but I was sure it was booting up lightning fast yesterday before I installed some applications. But system restoring to before those applications didn't do anything.

Anyways, it seems that all the time is taken up in the Winlogon Init, but pulling up the services graphs shows long periods of nothing happening:

http://i.imgur.com/npG2uRD.png

What should my next step be to track this down? If it helps, I am on a domain managed computer (work laptop, has a bunch of locked settings set by the domain) but not connected to the domain (and won't be 99% of the time).

Edit: some other information I've found from the windows event viewer is that "BootMachineProfileProcessingTime" is taking 53113ms. Currently investigating this.

Edit2: It seems that the profile processing time includes all device drivers and such, so that tells me much less than this boot tracing.

Edited October 10, 2013 by ScottyDoesKnow

[MagicAndre1981]

ok, Winlogoninit is slow. Open the generic graph and look under Microsoft-Windows-Winlogon for Task Name with a long Time during the Opcode Start and Stop.

Here is an example where RequestCredentials (entering the password) takes too long:

[ScottyDoesKnow]

Thanks for the quick reply. I've edited this post about 20 times and here's where we're at. This is the original screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/1KT7mbH.png

It looks like there's just magical missing time from 6 - 60 seconds.

I edited because I thought I found something else, but in the end I think I just did a sort at some point and screwed it up:

http://i.imgur.com/Xvz0Ysf.png

Update: I've been looking into some warnings that GPClient is taking a long time. Going from there I found that GroupPolicy startup scripts are taking 59 seconds. Running gpedit.msc I can't find any startup scripts. So still stumped.

Update again: gpscript.exe is running for around 36 seconds of it. As far as I can tell there are no scripts on the local computer or on the server, though I can only connect to the server through VPN so it may be a case of it trying to contact the server for scripts and failing.

Edited October 10, 2013 by ScottyDoesKnow

[MagicAndre1981]

zip and uplaod the ETL file, I'll take a look at it.

[ScottyDoesKnow]

Here you go: https://db.tt/cBsfOIUU

Thanks for taking the time. Unfortunately I think I may have gone as far as I can with the boot stuff. It seems to be centered around group policies from the server (which I am almost never connected to). I've traced it as far as gpclient and gpscript, and searching those reveals a host of different problems that are all slightly different from mine. My current suspicion is that the delay is just it trying to connect to the server, but I don't know how (or if it's possible) to reduce the timeout on that.

Edit: I'm no longer so sure I know what the problem is. It seems that windows 7 has a feature (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305293) to prevent this from happening. It grabs the group policy stuff asynchronously and swaps over when it finally connects. I also tried forcing the policy to disabled to make sure, but no luck. So I'm back to being clueless.

Edited October 11, 2013 by ScottyDoesKnow

[MagicAndre1981]

Yes, the trace shows the GP client/gpscript as cause:

- <groupPolicy>  <process name="gpscript.exe" pid="4768" startTime="25673" endTime="60349" duration="34676" localLowPriCPUTime="0" localRegPriCPUTime="55" localLowPriDiskBytes="0" localRegPriDiskBytes="838144" />   <process name="gpscript.exe" pid="4292" startTime="66468" endTime="66525" duration="57" localLowPriCPUTime="0" localRegPriCPUTime="23" localLowPriDiskBytes="0" localRegPriDiskBytes="1054720" />   </groupPolicy>

I have no experience with GP so I can't help.