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There is some low hanging fruit, some not so much. I'm dealing with kids, more soon
There is some low hanging fruit, some not so much. I'm dealing with kids, more soon
I've done a round or two of traces and have delayed Crashplan at startup. 1st time through it saved 15 seconds, but subsequent bootups the system reverted to 1 minute 30 seconds.
Emsisoft developer, Fabian, suggested: "32 to 50 seconds does sound excessive indeed. You can try to disable "Protect the computer even if no user is logged on" under "Protection"/"File Guard". That may help your boot times a bit. If it doesn't please let me know so we can look into what exactly is taking so much time during boot."
I'm going to run a fresh trace, then disable that and run a 2nd trace, then at Jeff's (windowsperf) request, I'm going to disable "Emsisoft Protection Service" and retrace. Also, disable the Asus Com service which is known to have a memory leak and delay startups.
More fun than you can shake a mouse at!
Thanks for checking in! Jeff has been busy with family so we haven't had the results of the last trace yet.
BUT, something changed just yesterday. I got a weird alert that my F: drive was bad. The only thing on the F: drive is my OS' pagefile.sys file. Moved it there 2 months ago because I was down to 14 GB available on the SSD C: drive.
Checked the drive. It was okay. Noticed that I was down from 35 GB to 16 GB on my C: drive. ???. Pagefile.sys apparently ran back to the C: drive due to whatever that F: drive hiccup was.
So I used my AX64 Time Machine program and snapped back 3 days to when things were working fine (except the long boot time, of course) and when it rebooted, it was quicker than usual. Huh???
I noticed that the F: drive had the pagefile.sys again. The C: drive had the 35.7 GB it should have available. I have noooooooo idea how that pagefile.sys got back on the F: drive if I only restored the C: drive. Magic?
New boot up time comparison (black is the most recent slow, Red is the new faster):
00:00 00:00 Press start button
00:03 00:03 Asus logo on black screen
00:06 00:06 Windows boot manager screen with options for Windows; Macrium Recovery; and AX64 Recovery
00:09 00:09 Windows logo on black background
00:36 00:36 Light blue Windows Welcome screen
01:15 Purple desktop background, with no icons
01:35 00:52 Purple desktop background, Icons show up, popup for which drives were recognized, and I'm ready to go
Much better.
Would a new trace reveal what happened?
A new trace would tell what's different - compared to the previous one it might tell what happened, yes.
Tortured. On December 31st, Emsisoft delivered an update which included a fix for the network issue I had been having. I didn't reboot until days later (this morning, January 2nd) to finalize that update. But upon rebooting, my system has reverted to the very long boot up issue. I am NOT convinced it was the update.
I ran AX64 to restore back to December 29th when the system was working great with faster boot up. But the long boot is still there. I then restored to the same time frame with Macrium Reflect, including the MBR. No difference.
Remember, that my system "fixed" itself when I got the popup alert that my F: drive was bad --- causing the pagefile.sys to revert to the C: drive, upon which I then restored back --- and the pagefile.sys went back to the F: drive --- and the boot up was faster.
I had taken a Macrium image of the F: drive right after that, thinking I could use it (not really understanding what the pagesys.file really is. Anyway, on a lark, or naivety, I used Macrium to restore the F: drive to that magic moment. No change. Arrrrgghhh.
Might some funkiness with the pagefile.sys show up in the trace?
I lost my chance at running a trace when it was booting fast (holiday obligations got in the way.) So upset about that. Might have given a clue as to what the conflict is.
So now what? Jeff, can you analyze that last trace we did?
Can you get a new trace please? A lot has been done, and I'd personally like to see something current so as not to miss anything.
What we learned from my brief period of faster boot time, is where the delay is taking place
00:36 00:36 Light blue Windows Welcome screen
01:15 ------Purple desktop background, with no icons
01:35 00:52 Purple desktop background, Icons show up, popup for which drives were recognized
Could all of this be the result of some funkiness with the pagefile.sys file?
I will do it this afternoon. Thank you!
I have provided Jeff and Carl with the traces.