How to determine your Boot & Shutdown times

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  1. Posts : 10,200
    MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
       #1

    How to determine your Boot & Shutdown times


    The Event Viewer contains, although often well-hidden, some useful info.

    Here's how to determine your Boot & Shutdown times:

    WIN key | type EVENTVWR.MSC | ENTER key

    First wait for the Event Viewer to be populated-watch the Summary of Administrative Events section.

    Now, using the left-hand pane tunnel down as follows:
    Applications and services logs | Microsoft | Windows | Diagnostics-Performance | Operational

    Right-click on Operational.

    In the top-section of the middle pane, various events are listed.

    Click on EventID to sort the events from smallest to largest.

    EventID 100 is for Boot Performance.
    EventID 200 is for Shutdown Performance

    You may find some of the other events to also be of interest.
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  2. Posts : 17,796
    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
       #2

    I read somewhere there was a way to do that, but could not find it. I will remember this. Rep to you.

    Unless I did it wrong, it appears you must run as administrator (what I did) or at least be in an adm account.
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  3. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #3

    richc46 said:
    I read somewhere there was a way to do that, but could not find it. I will remember this. Rep to you.

    .
    Same here !!
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  4. Posts : 10,200
    MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Thanks guys. Glad to be of assistance. I ran across this in a Windows OS blog by Sean Wheeler. I had "starred" same and had waited until I'd used the procedure a couple of times to make sure all was good. The "starred" refers to the capability of the Google Reader to mark a blog with a star and then view later by looking at the starred items.
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  5. whs
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       #5

    The Boot time must include the time it takes for the BIOS splash screen. My boot times listed by the Eventvwr are +/- 36sec whilst I measured (with the stopwatch) 12 to 15sec from when the "Loading windows" appears on the screen to when my internet is operational (my weatherbug shows data).
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  6. Posts : 17,796
    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
       #6

    Mine shows 58 seconds, including the time for Bios Splash..
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  7. Posts : 10,200
    MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #7

    My last three show, with rounding: 32.5, 38.5 and 31.5 seconds.
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  8. whs
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       #8

    So it does include the BIOS time.
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  9. Posts : 10,200
    MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #9

    Click on the Details tab for Event 100.

    Here's an example:
    + System

    - Provider

    [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
    [ Guid] {CFC18EC0-96B1-4EBA-961B-622CAEE05B0A}

    EventID 100

    Version 2

    Level 3

    Task 4002

    Opcode 34

    Keywords 0x8000000000010000

    - TimeCreated

    [ SystemTime] 2010-08-15T22:19:51.928178900Z

    EventRecordID 304

    - Correlation

    [ ActivityID] {00000000-CB28-0000-8BB7-778EC73CCB01}

    - Execution

    [ ProcessID] 1524
    [ ThreadID] 1596

    Channel Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational

    Computer karl-PC

    - Security

    [ UserID] S-1-5-19


    - EventData

    BootTsVersion 2
    BootStartTime 2010-08-15T22:16:49.656000700Z
    BootEndTime 2010-08-15T22:19:48.995366400Z
    SystemBootInstance 121
    UserBootInstance 112
    BootTime 31458
    MainPathBootTime 15858
    BootKernelInitTime 30
    BootDriverInitTime 1231
    BootDevicesInitTime 4049
    BootPrefetchInitTime 4234
    BootPrefetchBytes 299302912
    BootAutoChkTime 0
    BootSmssInitTime 5157
    BootCriticalServicesInitTime 1049
    BootUserProfileProcessingTime 689
    BootMachineProfileProcessingTime 82
    BootExplorerInitTime 2688
    BootNumStartupApps 6
    BootPostBootTime 15600
    BootIsRebootAfterInstall false
    BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits 0
    BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits 0
    BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits 0
    BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits 0
    BootIsDegradation false
    BootIsStepDegradation false
    BootIsGradualDegradation false
    BootImprovementDelta 0
    BootDegradationDelta 0
    BootIsRootCauseIdentified false
    OSLoaderDuration 1419
    BootPNPInitStartTimeMS 30
    BootPNPInitDuration 4086
    OtherKernelInitDuration 1145
    SystemPNPInitStartTimeMS 5220
    SystemPNPInitDuration 1194
    SessionInitStartTimeMS 6426
    Session0InitDuration 3213
    Session1InitDuration 1181
    SessionInitOtherDuration 762
    WinLogonStartTimeMS 11584
    OtherLogonInitActivityDuration 815
    UserLogonWaitDuration 76072
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  10. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #10

    Thanks Karl. That is really seeing it in small slices.
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