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boot times in windows 7

i’ve got a customer that has inquired about boot times in windows 7 and i started digging into the windows 7 sdk to find some great utilities that help you look at the boot process in windows 7.

xperf

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installed as part of the sdk, this command line allows you to take a look a detailed information on performance

xbootmgr

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command line that allows you to grab statistics of a reboot/hibernate/standby/etc. of your system

xperfui

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from codeplex, this places a gui on the command line tools – tools – trace session - boot trace allows you to get the trace file that you can display with the final utility.

windows performance analyzer

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here are the results of the disk i/o on my system start