Any program that log the startup time of each process?

kharl said:

there is something i uninstalled that increased the boot time (from start up to the final windows welcome sound) from 30-35 secs to about 2 minutes, the disk usage led shows that there is something accessing the disk

This can be a bear to find (the disk access thing), but as for your startup times question, I found a free program from R2 Studios that can be very useful:

Startup Delayer Overview | r2 Studios

The program runs at startup. Launch it, click the Running Tasks tab, and then right-click in any of the column headers and select the Start Time parameter. This column then shows the Date & Time each running process started, so you see any long gaps from one task to the next.

I have this running on all my computers for this feature, and this feature alone i.e. I don't even use the main "startup delayer" function!

Sometimes it's difficult or impossible, especially if the process is svchost.exe, to tell exactly what caused the delay, but another tool called Svchost Viewer can at least tell you what services are running for a given Process ID PID:

svchost viewer - Home

If it IS svchost.exe that seems to cause the delay, you might use this to next stop/disable whatever services lie within to see if you can find the issue.

Good luck--that you have multiple machines to check against each other should at least give you a fighting chance to find the issue.

maxseven said:

kharl said:

there is something i uninstalled that increased the boot time (from start up to the final windows welcome sound) from 30-35 secs to about 2 minutes, the disk usage led shows that there is something accessing the disk

This can be a bear to find (the disk access thing), but as for your startup times question, I found a free program from R2 Studios that can be very useful:

Startup Delayer Overview | r2 Studios

The program runs at startup. Launch it, click the Running Tasks tab, and then right-click in any of the column headers and select the Start Time parameter. This column then shows the Date & Time each running process started, so you see any long gaps from one task to the next.

I have this running on all my computers for this feature, and this feature alone i.e. I don't even use the main "startup delayer" function!

Sometimes it's difficult or impossible, especially if the process is svchost.exe, to tell exactly what caused the delay, but another tool called Svchost Viewer can at least tell you what services are running for a given Process ID PID:

svchost viewer - Home

If it IS svchost.exe that seems to cause the delay, you might use this to next stop/disable whatever services lie within to see if you can find the issue.

Good luck--that you have multiple machines to check against each other should at least give you a fighting chance to find the issue.

MY MISTAKE

the correct is:

"there is something i INSTALLED..."

My two recommendations are Process Explorer v16.05 And Autoruns for Windows v13.5 Hope this helps. Screenshots.

maxseven said:

kharl said:

"there is something i INSTALLED..."

Makes no difference. Install Startup Delayer to a working PC along with the troublesome PC. Boot them both and compare their startup results.

You might also use any number of utility programs, even Windows' Programs and Features, and compare installed programs, or even use regedit.exe to open HKCU/Software and HKLM/Software side-by-side to see what's different. Or even Export those keys from each PC and use WinMerge to look for differences (might not work I suppose if proggies were installed in a different order). EDIT: and as Lance1 pointed-out, Autoruns will show all startup programs so you can use it to compare lappys side-by-side.

Are these 4 laptops brand-new, with identical hardware? Seems like it might be possible to set-up 1-of-4 exactly the way you want everything, and then do an image-backup (copy) of that setup to the other three laptops' hard drives.

Lotsa options.

no and yes

no they arent brand new but yes identical hardware...

i was thinking in that, and i am going to need that beacuase i will be purchasing morelaptops withing the following months...
but.. how does that work.. a clone of the hdd or after i instal OS to each laptop's hdd.. then i copy the settings? hows that?

whs said:

I use Soluto.

Freeware to Measure Startup Time in Windows 10 / 8 / 7

Hmmm I tried Soluto, signing-up for an account, installing the software. But it didn't work, complaining "not connected to the Internet" and I tried both of my ISPs to no avail. Nosing around, I found this:

Following our acquisition, we are no longer developing Soluto's PC management service. Please note that we are not going to support Windows 10 at this time.

Sounds like it's going nowhere for the future??? I uninstalled it.