Transcript Root Cause Slow Boot

Root Cause Slow
Boot/Slow Login
With WPT
Chad Schultz
Premier Field Engineer
[email protected]
Top causes of
slow
boot/logon
GPOs
Start up/Logon scripts
Start up programs
Unstable drivers
Slow starting Windows Services
Known KB issues
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What is a
good boot
time?
Windows 8/8.1
HDD - < 75s
SSD - < 45s
Windows 7
HDD - < 90s
SSD - < 60s
Windows Vista
HDD - < 120s
SSD - < 75s
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Tools available
to
troubleshoot
slow
boot/logon
Windows Performance Toolkit
Process Monitor
Event Viewer (Vista+)
Autoruns
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Windows
Performance
Toolkit Setup
Windows 8/8.1 ADK (Windows 7 and
up)
Windows 7 SDK (Windows 7 and below)
Local install or download
Can copy just files to other machines
and run
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Windows
Performance
Toolkit –
Command
Line
Simple boot trace:
Xbootmgr.exe -trace boot
Simple shutdown trace:
Xbootmgr.exe -trace shutdown
Simple hibernate trace:
Xbootmgr.exe -trace hibernate
Simple sleep/standby trace:
Xbootmgr.exe -trace Standby
In depth boot trace:
Xbootmgr.exe -trace boot -traceFlags latency+dispatcher -stackWalk
Profile+ImageLoad+ProcessCreate+ThreadCreate+CSwitch+Read
yThread+ThreadCreate -postBootDelay 30 -resultPath c:\temp\
List traceFlags Groups
Xperf -providers KG
List stackWalk
Xperf -help stackwalk
Wprui.exe
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Windows
Performance
Toolkit –
Graph Order
Boot Phases
Windows Logon
Services
Processes
Generic Events
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Windows
Performance
Toolkit
Demo traces
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Process
Monitor
Boot Trace
Check then reboot and run Procmon
Save as .PML
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Event Viewer
Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy/Operational
Events built off of trace that happens each boot,
%systemroot%\wdi\Logfiles\BootCKCL.etl
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Autoruns
http://live.sysinternals.com/tools/autoruns.exe
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Links
Chad’s Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/b/chad
Yong Rhee’s Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/b/yongrhee
Jeff Stokes Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/b/jeff_stokes
Ask PFE Platforms Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/
Windows 8.1 RTM Assessment and Deployment Kit
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/A/E/6AEA92B0-A412-4622-983E5B305D2EBE56/adk/adksetup.exe
Windows 7 SDK
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8279
Sysinternals Tools
http://live.Sysinternals.com/tools
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Contact
Chad Schultz
Premier Field Engineer
(701) 610-1310
www.microsoft.com/microsoftservices
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to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the
date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION