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

[AndreiLis]

Hello, Andre!

I think it is a great result to decrease boot time so significantly, at least this is acceptable for me.

Thank you very much!

[viper12321]

Hi Andre, I could use a hand with my extremely long boot up. Cheers!

Boot trace and Summary XML:

http://sdrv.ms/1b6o47B

[MagicAndre1981]

your HDD is busy all the time. This is the bottleneck. Remove as much tools from startup you can or replace the Hitachi HDS721010KLA330 with a SSD.

[viper12321]

your HDD is busy all the time. This is the bottleneck. Remove as much tools from startup you can or replace the Hitachi HDS721010KLA330 with a SSD.

Do you think using Intel's Smart Response SSD caching would provide any meaningful benefit? Prices for larger SSDs are rather prohibitive for me at the moment.

[MagicAndre1981]

I have no experience with this Cache technology. So I can't tell you how much it improves boot.

[viper12321]

Thanks Andre. Short of replacing my HDD, is there anything else I can do in the meanwhile to improve my boot performance?

[MagicAndre1981]

not really. A SSD is the only real way to improve boot perf a lot.

[TheApocalyptican]

I'm trying to diagnose slow resume from hibernate/sleep. Cold boot is fine. When running the command for the hibernate trace, it all works fine. However when I try to create xml file, all I get is a 1kb file that says "Boot action failed: No Winlogon notifications found.

^" inside of it. Nothing else. What might I be doing wrong?

Edited February 6, 2014 by TheApocalyptican

[spectre56]

Hi I am trying to find out why my Windows 7 Ultimate 64*bit is taking 12 minutes to shutdown. This just started about 4 days ago. You can access my shutdown trace at:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwn39Ds6xxytdnlLOGVTb3J1djQ/edit?usp=sharing

I was not able to create the summary xml file for some reason.

Thanks Dave

Okay here is the file on Skydrive. I didn't realize that you couldn't reach it on my google drive.

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=309906858EA22F0A%21120

Looking forward to what ever you can do to help me out.

Edited February 7, 2014 by spectre56

[TheApocalyptican]

Ok...so I figured out my previous issue. I have tracked the problem down to the "resume". It is a long amount of time. I am not able to see in the xml why the resume is so long, so I'm adding a link to my skydrive and the trace.

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=901462CA8A88F20D!168&authkey=!ALQ-ntzaGMesvV0&ithint=file%2c.zip

[MagicAndre1981]

reading the hibermation file is slow for you:

hiberread="18835000" 

that are 19s. The WD green is an extremely slow HDD. Use a different drive (SSD).

[TheApocalyptican]

Yeah...I know that's part of the problem, but I think I finally discovered the real issue. Something with thumbnails causing a problem. I disabled thumbnails and cut the resume down to 50xxxxxx rather than the 198xxxxxx it was.

[MagicAndre1981]

interesting find. I can't see this in the trace.

[TheApocalyptican]

I tracked it to a dllhost.exe I believe, and then "in" the dllhost the acutal process name was just a bunch of random characters. I searched for the string of characters online, and it lead me to something about DCOM and thumbnails.

edit: it was dllhost.exe (6044) which the command line section in performance analyzer said "C:\Windows\system32\DllHost.exe /Processid:{AB8902B4-09CA-4BB6-B78D-A8F59079A8D5}". That process id leads to "Thumbnail Cache Out of Proc Server DCOM entry". Since this is an HTPC, and not a desktop, I really don't care about thumbnails, so I just disabled them, and cut my time to 1/3 of what it was.

Edited February 7, 2014 by TheApocalyptican

[MagicAndre1981]

ok, thanks