How to troubleshoot slow boots (startup) and logons (logins) on your Vista or Windows 7 system.

Applies to:

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Windows 7 RTM

Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2)

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Windows Vista RTM

For IT administrators, OEM’s and ISV’s, you can read the details from these two whitepapers:

Windows On/Off Transition Performance Analysis

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463386

Windows On/Off Transitions Solutions Guide

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463230

The tools that you need to troubleshoot these, is called Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT better known as XPerf and XbootMgr).  The toolkit can be downloaded from:

Windows Performance Analysis Tools

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/performance/cc825801.aspx

Note:  It does require understanding of Windows Internals.

Windows Internals 5th edition by Mark E. Russinovich and David A. Solomon with Alex Ionescu

https://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Book.aspx?ID=12069&locale=en-us

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  I made a more user friendly guide here: www.msfn.org/.../140247-trace-windows-7-bootshutdownhibernatestandbyresume-issues also, please release an update for Windows 7 asap to fix the bugcheck if you use the DRIVERS flag.