Huge rebot time

Re: Soluto.

Sorry - missed your earlier post. I don't see anything in the Soluto screenshots to be concerned about. Nothing that's taking a huge amount of time to load. There's a few items that could be removed but that's optional and won't help improve boot time significantly.

Your screenshots show boot takes 1 min 40 secs.

Compare that with mine:




So yours looks okay!

@ PlatypusKnight

"How are you timing the boot?"
*This is from the last boot record after all scans etc(yesterday):
Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 80042ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2015‎-‎01‎-‎08T08:49:39.702800300Z

Today's boot record screenshot attached ... it took 1.90sec ... why is it so unstable? Also why does it always show critical status?


"Did you have a time frame for your friend to open and physically inspect the RAM modules?"
* Hopefully this Sunday.

@ Callender
Perhaps 1.40sec is ok but yesterday I asked a friend of mine to run the custom event "boot time" to test how long their boot takes .. he used windows 8.1, system config: 2.2ghz i3 4th gen with 4gb ram ... he has about same data/software's as me on the system and it took only 48sec to load.
I'm not a techie but I have better ram and gpu ... not sure about the processor as its i7 2nd gen(2gen gap) .. and mine take 1.40sec and the boot screen still shows error

I attached a note describing my concerns about the screenshots on soluto .. please check and let me know your thoughts on this.

*** some of the suggestions mentioned in soluto ... cant find those programs in ccleaner startup option or msconfig ... so if we're to disable them .. how to do that?

Any idea why the custom event "boot time" shows error/critical etc on every boot record?

PlatypusKnight said:

You're not going to win a boot up race with a Win 8 machine.

They boot significantly faster than Win 7. Don't even compare the two.

@PlatypusKnight: You have very good eyes, I missed the fact that the friend's machine was Win8.
It is impossible to compare the two boot benchmarks, the same way you cannot compare a sports car and a race car.

Callender gave Gabe a fair comparison - there isn't much else to do.

Upgrading to Win8 or wait for Win10 will get the boot times Gabe wants. I tend to wait a few months to upgrade to give MS a chance to fix things in the RTM version. Most of the 'bugs' in the first Service Pack (or update in the case of Win8).

I'm not sure why people focus so much on this - other performance is more important, most of the speedy boot times people see stem from technology such as Intel Rapid Start, improved hibernation and fast boot, or faster devices (hybrid disk drives and SSDs).

Well if I really try I can get boot time down to less than 45 seconds but there's no point in disabling stuff that is useful. I'll look at your list of questions - it will take time to provide an answer. In the meantime just a couple of examples.

You can disable Flash Player and Google Update checking and the like but that would mean that you need to manually check for updates. How do you feel about that? My preference is to manually update every time but if you don't keep an eye on the availability of new versions you risk having unpatched software on your system.

gabe22 said:

Aha .. sorry I didn't know that windows 8 is that much fast but anyway .. any idea about the boot error/critical status on event log? I mean whats causing it and possible fix?

No need to apologize - now you know

This might be a bit of overkill on data collection, but please follow OPTION ONE - DM log collector in
Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) Posting Instructions

Ignore the BSOD references in the tut. The tool collects a lot of information that might bear out something on the Boot events.

Sometimes the Events are given a level that seems more important than the actual event it's reporting. I won't know anymore until I see exactly what the event is reporting.

Bill
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I personally never saw any quicker booting between 8-10 that 7 doesn't perform
All are pretty much the same,
The only difference is the lock screens on 8 and 10 which is to me more of a noticeable to me delay
But then again a lock screen in general on startup makes no practical sense either :/

Well I've tried to answer your questions re: Soluto and what it shows.

Answers here: Questions_v2.txt

When I suggested Soluto I'd assumed that it was the desktop app that I have used myself in the past. They've withdrawn that and this new version is different. Try clicking on a background app (orange entry) then click remove from boot - or alternatively delay.

Just try one entry to start with then reboot to see if the setting stuck. If it works - continue with your selections. If it doesn't - uninstall Soluto. Uninstall it anyway once you're done. Note: When I uninstalled it it left a folder behind in Program Data.

2015/01/09 21:59:37 Successfully deleted::
C:\ProgramData\Soluto



Like I said I don't see anything that will make a huge difference.