Category Archives: Windows Performance Toolkit

Start ProcMon During Boot on Machine You Can’t Logon

Posted on December 8, 2016 by chentiangemalc

Sometimes you might want to run some tracing tools like ProcMon, xperf, wpr, netsh trace, etc on a machine that logon is not completing properly. Often you might be able to use PowerShell remoting, WMI, or psexec to get these … Continue reading →

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Case of the 30 minute Windows 7 Logon

Posted on September 13, 2014 by chentiangemalc

After following a similar approach as below: https://chentiangemalc.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/case-of-the-8-minute-windows-8-1-first-logon/ I still hadn’t found any obvious cause of slow logon, except that it was in Win Logon Init phase. CPU, Storage, Memory, and Disk usage are all low: Expanding Generic Events, looking … Continue reading →

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Case of the 8 Minute Windows 8.1 First Logon

Posted on September 12, 2014 by chentiangemalc

In this case Windows 8.1 was slow to logon, only for the first logon. But it was slow…. Typically for slow logons / startups on Windows machines my go-to tools are 1) The Windows Event logs. Besides the System / … Continue reading →

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