Show your WinBootInfo!!

WinBootInfo is new small utility, which analyze your Windows booting. I'm not sure, how helpful it can be, yet...as it didn't give me easy answer for the question "what's taking the most time at the startup". But it is surely interesting.

Download here:
WinBootInfo 1.0 for 32-bit Windows
WinBootInfo 1.0 for 64-bit Windows

As for my results...I wouldn't say it's bad. Probably some people would get better times with my SSD, but if I consider loading of some Sony utilities, I'm quite satisfied.



BTW...does anybody know about some similar program for shutdown? As I'm quite satisfied with the boottime, my shutdown time got much worse after installing SSD...and I did the NBR tweaks...

 

Hmm... it takes around 2 minutes max to get to a working screen including a quite quick lo in - does that count?

 

If you would use that utility, it would be possible to see the exact time until login manager...mine is in range from 19 to 22 seconds usually...but I'm not using loging in...

 

I had a look...its only a 30day demo... I'm wary of installing stuff on my Vaio - it has been running so well and I'm fed up with recovery installations and clean instals... (from my old Medion)

There should be a windows tool somewhere that does the same... in fact I'm pretty sure there is one...

 

I can understand that, as I was playing with my Vaio and Vista quite a lot and I woudn't be happy, if some program would break it. I gave it a try because I'm already using the undervolting utility - CPUGenie from the same company and it's running quite flawlessly now This utility looks very lite and nice, working like a charm...eventhough I'm not planning to buy it as I didn't find bigger use for that...just to make this test to be able to see results of others

 

i can relate! ive had my vaio for about six weeks. flawless so far, uninstalled some bloatware, and tweaked it, and it runs flawless. my computer i just replaced (hp that died and so was replaced) was constantly having to be repaired, os re installed, or just plain didnt wanna play.

would love to know what the windows utility was.



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WinBootInfo has only two files being installed - WinBootInfo.exe and the driver that does the analysis - GVBootLog.sys (or GVBootLog64.sys)

The driver itself is completely inactive unless you go to WinBootInfo and schedule a boot analysis - in fact, after it's done, WinBootInfo completely removes the driver entry from the registry, so it is not even loaded when you are not doing boot analysis.

So it is quite safe and "bloat-free" to use it - and by no means it slows down the system.

 

Googling did the trick
ZDNet
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=246

BootTime 58460
MainPathBootTime 36460
BootKernelInitTime 21
BootDriverInitTime 3498
BootDevicesInitTime 5779
BootPrefetchInitTime 85877
BootPrefetchBytes 466591744
BootAutoChkTime 0
BootSmssInitTime 8422
BootCriticalServicesInitTime 1271
BootUserProfileProcessingTime 2027
BootMachineProfileProcessingTime 803
BootExplorerInitTime 4671
BootNumStartupApps 15
BootPostBootTime 22000

Followow the instructios (in pictures,and that's a good thing) And Vista will tell you all you'd ever wanted to know

 

Difference between WinBootInfo and built-in Vista diagnostics is that WinBootInfo logs every file loaded and shows it in the graphical-view.

It also logs detailed CPU and I/O usage patterns.

Also, Vista Boot Diagnostics relies on Diagnostic Service to run, and this service is turned-off by many "tweakers" for getting faster boots

Bottom line - to only get boot time, Vista Boot Diagnostics is more than enough - to get detailed information about what is loaded and when, WinBootInfo is a tool.

 

See my post.
Vista logs more than just the overal boot time.

Boot time for every file - maybe you can find it, maybe not.

 

WinBootInfo 1.01 has just been released.

This version also shows file information and the belonging product of the loaded drivers/DLLs/applications.

Picture of WinBootInfo working:

 

I'm pretty disappointed, since as mentioned, this didn't answer my " is taking so long and how do I fix it?" question. My boot time was about 40 seconds with Vista/XP, but it's doubled now.

Total boot time: 84.6 sec
Num. Processes loaded: 52
Num. drivers loaded: 135
Num. binary images loaded: 2526
Num. unique binaries loaded: 107
Total I/O Data Read: 115.7 MB
Total I/O Data Written: 18.5 MB
Boot to Session Manager: 12 sec
Boot to Win32 Subsystem: 19 sec
Boot to Login Manager: 22 sec
Boot to User Session Init: 45 sec
Boot to Windows Explorer: 46 sec
CPU time spent in user mode: 8.5 sec
CPU time spent in kernel mode: 12.0 sec
CPU time spent running idle: 68.1 sec
Total Interrupts: 107193
Total Context Switches: 212217

I'm running the 64-bit Windows 7 Beta, and I've really been surprised by how long the system hangs on the "Welcome..." screen (it only appeared for a split-second when I ran Vista). Obviously, I don't have many processes at startup, so I don't get what's taking so long, especially the 23 seconds in between "Login Manager" and "User Session Init" and the 38.6 seconds in between "Windows Explorer" and finishing the boot.

So yeah, Windows 7 is great when it gets going, but the startup is confusing and frustrating me.