How to root-cause MS "Critical" errors on Bootup Performance?

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How to root-cause MS "Critical" errors on Bootup Performance?

Anyone well-versed in this obscurity?

Windows keeps track of performance of bootup/startup, standby state & recovery therefrom, Shutdown.
My Thinkpad X120E of late has a very consistent pattern of "Critical" flags in the performance logs but the automated RootCause identification appears to be unproductive.

Where else can I look to see what is hanging the process? When I look under "System" Event logs there is little of interest there and nothing I can easily correlate with the below.

No hardware changes to the laptop. Only Windows 7 updates-du-jour

Example log entry below. This is found in the MMC, Event-Viewer/Application & Services Logs/Microsoft/Windows/Diagnostics-Performance/Operational

Boot Duration / Startup
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 9/29/2015 7:06:43 AM
Event ID: 100
Task Category: Boot Performance Monitoring
Level: Critical
Keywords: Event Log
User: LOCAL SERVICE
Computer: Shire-X
Description:
Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 113499ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2015‎-‎09‎-‎29T12:04:15.890000700Z
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance" Guid="{CFC18EC0-96B1-4EBA-961B-622CAEE05B0A}" />
<EventID>100</EventID>
<Version>2</Version>
<Level>1</Level>
<Task>4002</Task>
<Opcode>34</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000010000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-09-29T12:06:43.526450100Z" />
<EventRecordID>2854</EventRecordID>
<Correlation ActivityID="{03112C48-F800-0001-2857-66F6AEFAD001}" />
<Execution ProcessID="1388" ThreadID="2148" />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational</Channel>
<Computer>Shire-X</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-19" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="BootTsVersion">2</Data>
<Data Name="BootStartTime">2015-09-29T12:04:15.890000700Z</Data>
<Data Name="BootEndTime">2015-09-29T12:06:42.261377700Z</Data>
<Data Name="SystemBootInstance">367</Data>
<Data Name="UserBootInstance">360</Data>
<Data Name="BootTime">113499</Data>
<Data Name="MainPathBootTime">30699</Data>
<Data Name="BootKernelInitTime">40</Data>
<Data Name="BootDriverInitTime">681</Data>
<Data Name="BootDevicesInitTime">371</Data>
<Data Name="BootPrefetchInitTime">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootPrefetchBytes">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootAutoChkTime">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootSmssInitTime">8130</Data>
<Data Name="BootCriticalServicesInitTime">1088</Data>
<Data Name="BootUserProfileProcessingTime">16413</Data>
<Data Name="BootMachineProfileProcessingTime">209</Data>
<Data Name="BootExplorerInitTime">2440</Data>
<Data Name="BootNumStartupApps">4</Data>
<Data Name="BootPostBootTime">82800</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsRebootAfterInstall">false</Data>
<Data Name="BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits">1024</Data>
<Data Name="BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsDegradation">false</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsStepDegradation">false</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsGradualDegradation">false</Data>
<Data Name="BootImprovementDelta">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootDegradationDelta">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsRootCauseIdentified">true</Data>
<Data Name="OSLoaderDuration">1437</Data>
<Data Name="BootPNPInitStartTimeMS">40</Data>
<Data Name="BootPNPInitDuration">411</Data>
<Data Name="OtherKernelInitDuration">541</Data>
<Data Name="SystemPNPInitStartTimeMS">935</Data>
<Data Name="SystemPNPInitDuration">641</Data>
<Data Name="SessionInitStartTimeMS">1594</Data>
<Data Name="Session0InitDuration">5827</Data>
<Data Name="Session1InitDuration">397</Data>
<Data Name="SessionInitOtherDuration">1904</Data>
<Data Name="WinLogonStartTimeMS">9724</Data>
<Data Name="OtherLogonInitActivityDuration">1912</Data>
<Data Name="UserLogonWaitDuration">5769</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>


Resume from Standby state:
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 9/29/2015 10:14:47 AM
Event ID: 300
Task Category: Standby Performance Monitoring
Level: Warning
Keywords: Event Log
User: LOCAL SERVICE
Computer: Shire-X
Description:
Windows has resumed from standby:
Standby Duration : 3327ms
Standby Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2015‎-‎09‎-‎29T13:23:46.447226100Z
Resume Duration : 1502ms
Resume Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2015‎-‎09‎-‎29T15:14:36.820865900Z
IsDegradation : false
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance" Guid="{CFC18EC0-96B1-4EBA-961B-622CAEE05B0A}" />
<EventID>300</EventID>
<Version>1</Version>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>4003</Task>
<Opcode>36</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000010000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-09-29T15:14:47.097213300Z" />
<EventRecordID>2856</EventRecordID>
<Correlation ActivityID="{03112C40-F800-0000-2A57-66F6AEFAD001}" />
<Execution ProcessID="1388" ThreadID="3048" />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational</Channel>
<Computer>Shire-X</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-19" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="StandbyTsVersion">1</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyAppCount">17</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyServicesCount">17</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyDevicesCount">146</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyStartTime">2015-09-29T13:23:46.447226100Z</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyEndTime">2015-09-29T13:23:49.774226100Z</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendTotal">3327</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendTotalChange">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendQueryApps">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendQueryAppsChange">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendQueryServices">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendQueryServicesChange">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendApps">2188</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendAppsChange">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendServices">31</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendServicesChange">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendShowUI">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendShowUIChange">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendSuperfetchPageIn">9</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendSuperfetchPageInChange">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendWinlogon">385</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendWinlogonChange">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendLockPageableSections">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendLockPageableSectionsChange">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendPreSleepCallbacks">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendPreSleepCallbacksChange">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendSwapInWorkerThreads">1</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendSwapInWorkerThreadsChange">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendQueryDevices">1</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendQueryDevicesChange">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendFlushVolumes">18</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendFlushVolumesChange">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendSuspendDevices">689</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendSuspendDevicesChange">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendHibernateWrite">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbySuspendHibernateWriteChange">0</Data>
<Data Name="ResumeStartTime">2015-09-29T15:14:36.820865900Z</Data>
<Data Name="ResumeEndTime">2015-09-29T15:14:37.565459000Z</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyResumeTotal">1502</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyResumeTotalChange">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyResumeHibernateRead">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyResumeHibernateReadChange">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyResumeS3BiosInitTime">758</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyResumeS3BiosInitTimeChange">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyResumeResumeDevices">744</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyResumeResumeDevicesChange">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyRootCauseDegradationGradual">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyRootCauseImprovementGradual">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyRootCauseDegradationStep">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyRootCauseImprovementStep">0</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyIsDegradation">false</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyIsTroubleshooterLaunched">true</Data>
<Data Name="StandbyIsRootCauseIdentified">false</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
HP DC7600, HP DC7600[2], HP DC7100, Samsung NC10
OS
Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows 7 Pro 32-bit, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, Windows XP Home SP3
CPU
Pentium 4 3.2GHz, Pentium 4 3.4GHz 64bit, Atom,
Motherboard
Dunno
Memory
4GB matched, 1GB, 2.5GB, 4.0 GB
Graphics Card(s)
Geforce 8400 GS and others
Sound Card
RealteK ALC260 and others
Monitor(s) Displays
Asus HD
Screen Resolution
1920x1080
Hard Drives
WD Caviar 640gb SATA
Cooling
We Be Cool
Hi,
Use Clean boot,
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ation-conflicts-performing-clean-startup.html
Click Start and type in the search box,
msconfig
Click on the suggestion on top or hit the Enter key,
Go to the Startup section and take some screen shots for a complete list,
Go to the Services section and on the bottom left Check the box to Hide All Microsoft services,
Repeat the screen shots,
See the links above my signature on how to take and upload screen shots here,
Cheers.
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Custom assembled by me :}
OS
Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
CPU
i7-5930K 2nd i9-9940x both water blocked VRM's too
Motherboard
ASUS SABERTOOTH X99 2nd ASUS x299 Apex
Memory
Trident-z 3200C14 2nd Trident-z 3600C16
Graphics Card(s)
EVGA 1080ti ftw3 2nd Titan Xp both water blocked
Sound Card
Built-in Realtek
Monitor(s) Displays
1-AOC G2460PG 24"G-Sync 144Hz/ 2nd 1-ASUS VG248QE 24" 144Hz
Screen Resolution
1920 x 1080 144Hz
Hard Drives
2-Samsung M.2 Evo & Evo Plus
2-Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD's/ 3-2.5 W.D. Black 1tb-&3-1tb/3-3.5 WD Black 1tb hdd's
PSU
EVGA SuperNOVA 1000-P2 2nd 1200-P2
Case
2-Corsair Obsidian Series 450D Black ATX Mid Tower
Cooling
Custom water loops
Keyboard
Logitech G710+/ 2nd Logitech G910
Mouse
2-RedDragon M901 Perdition 16400 dpi Gaming mouse = wired
Internet Speed
Comcast Ping 19ms 89.31mbps download speed 6.12mbps upload
Antivirus
Malwarebytes Pro/ Superantispyware Pro
Browser
FireFox & Pale moon
Other Info
2nd ASUS X299 Apex/Intel i9-9940x with Custom water loop/7H-Prem-x64/Corsair 450D case/Ram Trident-z 3600C16 4x8gb / Samsung970Evo plus 500gb SSD/Dual ssd EZ swap evo/PSU EVGA SuperNova 1200w-P2 80+Platinum/GPU Titan Xp /8-ML-140 on push-pull on 2-280GTX rads
thank you for responding.
Read Shawn's post and did. No effect, except it may be a hair worse. The below is after using msconfig and disabling the services. [non-MS]. I also disabled OneDrive, which 'hides'..
result is same: critical error startup threshold exception, no root cause identified

I'll gather the screenshots per your suggestion and do a couple more runs
z

Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 9/30/2015 7:44:24 AM
Event ID: 100
Task Category: Boot Performance Monitoring
Level: Critical
Keywords: Event Log
User: LOCAL SERVICE
Computer: Shire-X
Description:
Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 111326ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2015‎-‎09‎-‎30T12:42:00.952400800Z
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance" Guid="{CFC18EC0-96B1-4EBA-961B-622CAEE05B0A}" />
<EventID>100</EventID>
<Version>2</Version>
<Level>1</Level>
<Task>4002</Task>
<Opcode>34</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000010000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-09-30T12:44:24.834823300Z" />
<EventRecordID>2861</EventRecordID>
<Correlation ActivityID="{036C9C40-F800-0000-2A2F-E5667DFBD001}" />
<Execution ProcessID="1284" ThreadID="1332" />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational</Channel>
<Computer>Shire-X</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-19" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="BootTsVersion">2</Data>
<Data Name="BootStartTime">2015-09-30T12:42:00.952400800Z</Data>
<Data Name="BootEndTime">2015-09-30T12:44:22.760019700Z</Data>
<Data Name="SystemBootInstance">370</Data>
<Data Name="UserBootInstance">363</Data>
<Data Name="BootTime">111326</Data>
<Data Name="MainPathBootTime">29226</Data>
<Data Name="BootKernelInitTime">39</Data>
<Data Name="BootDriverInitTime">672</Data>
<Data Name="BootDevicesInitTime">382</Data>
<Data Name="BootPrefetchInitTime">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootPrefetchBytes">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootAutoChkTime">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootSmssInitTime">8237</Data>
<Data Name="BootCriticalServicesInitTime">1089</Data>
<Data Name="BootUserProfileProcessingTime">15101</Data>
<Data Name="BootMachineProfileProcessingTime">326</Data>
<Data Name="BootExplorerInitTime">2350</Data>
<Data Name="BootNumStartupApps">3</Data>
<Data Name="BootPostBootTime">82100</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsRebootAfterInstall">false</Data>
<Data Name="BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsDegradation">false</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsStepDegradation">false</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsGradualDegradation">false</Data>
<Data Name="BootImprovementDelta">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootDegradationDelta">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsRootCauseIdentified">false</Data>
<Data Name="OSLoaderDuration">1243</Data>
<Data Name="BootPNPInitStartTimeMS">39</Data>
<Data Name="BootPNPInitDuration">422</Data>
<Data Name="OtherKernelInitDuration">403</Data>
<Data Name="SystemPNPInitStartTimeMS">804</Data>
<Data Name="SystemPNPInitDuration">632</Data>
<Data Name="SessionInitStartTimeMS">1458</Data>
<Data Name="Session0InitDuration">5887</Data>
<Data Name="Session1InitDuration">488</Data>
<Data Name="SessionInitOtherDuration">1860</Data>
<Data Name="WinLogonStartTimeMS">9695</Data>
<Data Name="OtherLogonInitActivityDuration">1753</Data>
<Data Name="UserLogonWaitDuration">5953</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
HP DC7600, HP DC7600[2], HP DC7100, Samsung NC10
OS
Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows 7 Pro 32-bit, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, Windows XP Home SP3
CPU
Pentium 4 3.2GHz, Pentium 4 3.4GHz 64bit, Atom,
Motherboard
Dunno
Memory
4GB matched, 1GB, 2.5GB, 4.0 GB
Graphics Card(s)
Geforce 8400 GS and others
Sound Card
RealteK ALC260 and others
Monitor(s) Displays
Asus HD
Screen Resolution
1920x1080
Hard Drives
WD Caviar 640gb SATA
Cooling
We Be Cool
one more: i'm grasping here for answers - from yesterday but not repeated today. At least it points to a device...

Lenovo PM [power mgmt] driver has been a sore spot on a number of laptops of theirs. at some point I'm going to uninstall their pile and give it another go to see if any change. after that, uninstall the SATA drivers "to the bone" and start over there.

up to about a month ago, I had acceptable boot times - something around 15 seconds or so INCLUDING me quick-punching my password. now its close to a minute, with the delay AFTER login being the longer stretch .
windows 10 is worse, however... i quickly gave up the effort for this laptop

Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 9/28/2015 9:47:02 AM
Event ID: 351
Task Category: Standby Performance Monitoring
Level: Warning
Keywords: Event Log
User: LOCAL SERVICE
Computer: Shire-X
Description:
This driver responded slower than expected to the resume request while servicing this device:
Driver File Name : \Driver\ACPI
Driver Friendly Name : ACPI Driver for NT
Driver Version : 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
Driver Total Time : 43ms
Driver Degradation Time : 43ms
Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2015‎-‎09‎-‎28T14:46:58.946681500Z
Device Name : ACPI\PNP0B00\4&2a3c4928&0
Device Friendly Name : System CMOS/real time clock
Device Total Time : 43ms
Device Degradation Time : 0ms
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance" Guid="{CFC18EC0-96B1-4EBA-961B-622CAEE05B0A}" />
<EventID>351</EventID>
<Version>1</Version>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>4003</Task>
<Opcode>35</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000010000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-09-28T14:47:02.295003200Z" />
<EventRecordID>2850</EventRecordID>
<Correlation ActivityID="{030FFC48-F800-0001-899C-FA2BF0F9D001}" />
<Execution ProcessID="1356" ThreadID="1556" />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational</Channel>
<Computer>Shire-X</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-19" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="StartTime">2015-09-28T14:46:58.946681500Z</Data>
<Data Name="NameLength">13</Data>
<Data Name="Name">\Driver\ACPI</Data>
<Data Name="FriendlyNameLength">19</Data>
<Data Name="FriendlyName">ACPI Driver for NT</Data>
<Data Name="VersionLength">38</Data>
<Data Name="Version">6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)</Data>
<Data Name="TotalTime">43</Data>
<Data Name="DegradationTime">43</Data>
<Data Name="PathLength">37</Data>
<Data Name="Path">C:\Windows\system32\drivers\ACPI.sys</Data>
<Data Name="ProductNameLength">37</Data>
<Data Name="ProductName">Microsoft® Windows® Operating System</Data>
<Data Name="CompanyNameLength">22</Data>
<Data Name="CompanyName">Microsoft Corporation</Data>
<Data Name="DeviceNameLength">26</Data>
<Data Name="DeviceName">ACPI\PNP0B00\4&2a3c4928&0</Data>
<Data Name="DeviceFriendlyNameLength">28</Data>
<Data Name="DeviceFriendlyName">System CMOS/real time clock</Data>
<Data Name="DeviceTotalTime">43</Data>
<Data Name="DeviceDegradationTime">0</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
HP DC7600, HP DC7600[2], HP DC7100, Samsung NC10
OS
Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows 7 Pro 32-bit, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, Windows XP Home SP3
CPU
Pentium 4 3.2GHz, Pentium 4 3.4GHz 64bit, Atom,
Motherboard
Dunno
Memory
4GB matched, 1GB, 2.5GB, 4.0 GB
Graphics Card(s)
Geforce 8400 GS and others
Sound Card
RealteK ALC260 and others
Monitor(s) Displays
Asus HD
Screen Resolution
1920x1080
Hard Drives
WD Caviar 640gb SATA
Cooling
We Be Cool
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