Bootvis from microsoft

Good luck! Don't subscribe All Replies to my comments Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting. Windows 10 Education. Windows 10 Pro. This defrag process attempts to make the files listed in Layout. This process is run in the background approximately every three days. BootVis, which Microsoft describes as a "performance trace visualization tool," actually performs the same tasks as the XP boot process, except that BootVis allows the information obtained during a single boot to be used for optimization, rather than monitoring the system over a period of several days.

Download the file and then extract the BootVis. BootVis will now provide you with a second countdown before it reboots the system and performs the trace, giving you time to cancel the reboot and close any applications you might have left running. Click Reboot Now to bypass the countdown or Cancel to cancel the reboot. Once the system reboots, BootVis restarts automatically and provides individual graphs for the following system activity areas This can take a few minutes, so be patient.

The components are displayed in the order in which XP calls them and are read from the bottom up. Each component's bar begins at the point in the boot sequence when the component was called and the bar's length reflects the time in seconds required to load the component.

To determine the time required for any individual component activity, place the cursor over the title for the component. To get the most important number, the time used to boot the system, place the cursor over the vertical line that crosses through all the components.

This line represents the time the system took to boot. Download WinBootInfo trial. After a reboot the program will wait until the system is idle, then popup the results window shown above. From there you can click on an entry at the top and get more detailed information at the bottom.

Download BootLog XP. Soluto started out life as a dedicated startup monitor allowing you to disable programs causing slower boot times. After you have downloaded and installed Soluto, create an account then reboot your computer. We recommend removing Soluto after analyzing because there are many reports around the web that Soluto itself can slow down overall boot times quite a bit while installed. Visit Soluto Boot Time. Can I use something like this: xbootmgr -trace shutdown -prepSystem -verboseReadyBoot to speed up or fix crashes with shutdown?

I had the same bad experience as Infiniter, maybe even worse!!! I guess I should have read the comments before trying this. For me, running a PC with Windows 7 x64, the WPT x64 version installed, of course and xbootmgr boot trace action lead to a blue screen.

No chance of getting this to work, not even when starting in Safe Boot mode. To do this, right-click Command Prompt and select Run as administrator. To determine the drive number or letter of the USB drive, at the command prompt, enter list disk , and press Enter.

The list disk command displays all the disks on the computer. Note the drive number or drive letter of the USB drive. At the command prompt, enter select disk X where X is the drive number or drive letter of the USB drive that you noted in the last step , and press Enter.

Enter clean , and press Enter. This will delete all data from the USB drive. To create a new primary partition on the USB drive, enter create part pri , and press Enter. To select the partition that you just created, enter select part 1 , and press Enter. When you have the operating system image that you want to boot to, save it to the root of the USB drive.

If you have configured a boot order, check the Advanced options in the UEFI Boot configuration screen to ensure that Enable alternate boot sequence is On. If you currently have a Windows Insider build installed, you may need to first turn off and then turn on Secure Boot for the USB boot drive to be recognized.

Note: This may affect the look of your Surface splash screen. Select Disable. This will allow Surface to search for an alternate device to boot from instead of from your SSD.