Windows 7 Too much time to shutdown and boot-up

[donaldadkins]

I have extremely slow shutdown and boot-up speeds. I'm using windows 7 home premium with intel dual core. I have 4gb ram on a 32 bit system. Don't know what I'm doing wrong, but have collected some info from the event viewer. I would appreciate any advice. My average boot time is taking approx 150 seconds. I'll post below:

This is boot performance:

Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 10/26/2009 9:00:34 PM
Event ID: 100
Task Category: Boot Performance Monitoring
Level: Critical
Keywords: Event Log
User: LOCAL SERVICE
Computer: Don-PC
Description:
Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 147371ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2009‎-‎10‎-‎27T02:57:59.656000200Z
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="2009-10-27T03:00:34.680229300Z" />
<EventRecordID>198</EventRecordID>
<Correlation ActivityID="{00000000-62E8-0000-85AE-BC4AB156CA01}" />
<Execution ProcessID="1616" ThreadID="2008" />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational</Channel>
<Computer>Don-PC</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-19" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="BootTsVersion">2</Data>
<Data Name="BootStartTime">2009-10-27T02:57:59.656000200Z</Data>
<Data Name="BootEndTime">2009-10-27T03:00:30.125021300Z</Data>
<Data Name="SystemBootInstance">44</Data>
<Data Name="UserBootInstance">40</Data>
<Data Name="BootTime">147371</Data>
<Data Name="MainPathBootTime">63760</Data>
<Data Name="BootKernelInitTime">34</Data>
<Data Name="BootDriverInitTime">957</Data>
<Data Name="BootDevicesInitTime">4625</Data>
<Data Name="BootPrefetchInitTime">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootPrefetchBytes">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootAutoChkTime">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootSmssInitTime">28922</Data>
<Data Name="BootCriticalServicesInitTime">3437</Data>
<Data Name="BootUserProfileProcessingTime">2207</Data>
<Data Name="BootMachineProfileProcessingTime">314</Data>
<Data Name="BootExplorerInitTime">18327</Data>
<Data Name="BootNumStartupApps">6</Data>
<Data Name="BootPostBootTime">83611</Data>
<Data Name="BootIsRebootAfterInstall">false</Data>
<Data Name="BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits">644</Data>
<Data Name="BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits">192</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">3569</Data>
<Data Name="BootPNPInitStartTimeMS">34</Data>
<Data Name="BootPNPInitDuration">4667</Data>
<Data Name="OtherKernelInitDuration">2914</Data>
<Data Name="SystemPNPInitStartTimeMS">7203</Data>
<Data Name="SystemPNPInitDuration">916</Data>
<Data Name="SessionInitStartTimeMS">8498</Data>
<Data Name="Session0InitDuration">12808</Data>
<Data Name="Session1InitDuration">239</Data>
<Data Name="SessionInitOtherDuration">15874</Data>
<Data Name="WinLogonStartTimeMS">37420</Data>
<Data Name="OtherLogonInitActivityDuration">5489</Data>
<Data Name="UserLogonWaitDuration">3098</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

This is shutdown performance:

Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 10/26/2009 9:00:34 PM
Event ID: 200
Task Category: Shutdown Performance Monitoring
Level: Warning
Keywords: Event Log
User: LOCAL SERVICE
Computer: Don-PC
Description:
Windows has shutdown:
Shutdown Duration : 23338ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : ‎2009‎-‎10‎-‎27T02:57:11.067873800Z
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>200</EventID>
<Version>1</Version>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>4007</Task>
<Opcode>40</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000010000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-10-27T03:00:34.555429000Z" />
<EventRecordID>197</EventRecordID>
<Correlation ActivityID="{00000000-62E8-0000-84AE-BC4AB156CA01}" />
<Execution ProcessID="1616" ThreadID="2220" />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational</Channel>
<Computer>Don-PC</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-19" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="ShutdownTsVersion">1</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownStartTime">2009-10-27T02:57:11.067873800Z</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownEndTime">2009-10-27T02:57:34.406259700Z</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownTime">23338</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownUserSessionTime">3502</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownUserPolicyTime">1</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownUserProfilesTime">2</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownSystemSessionsTime">8884</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownPreShutdownNotificationsTime">3347</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownServicesTime">4995</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownKernelTime">10951</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownRootCauseStepImprovementBits">0</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownRootCauseGradualImprovementBits">0</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownRootCauseStepDegradationBits">0</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownRootCauseGradualDegradationBits">0</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownIsDegradation">false</Data>
<Data Name="ShutdownTimeChange">0</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

 

[rbridgeman]

Do you have a UPS? Just checking because I had a similar issue with my UPS software and the Power Management software conflicting which caused Power Management to take like 637 ms longer than usual during startup/shutdown. Windows actually told me out of the blue it was the cause and gave me the option to disable it, which resumed original great performance.

 

[donaldadkins]

Slow boot time

Thanks for your reply. I do have Toshiba power supply monitoring software (I have a Toshiba P205, s6287, 4g ram, 200g IDE hdd). How do you disable the power supply software?

Do you see anything else that might help. I sure would like to get the shut down and boot time down to less than a minute.

Great forum! Thanks for everyone's help. I could never figure this stuff out by myself.

Don

 

[donaldadkins]

Thanks rbridgeman, it cut my time in half. I'm down to 76 seconds, but still trying to reduce that.

Thanks again, great forum...

Don

 

[rbridgeman]

Great. I'm glad that solved your problem.