You can now check for processes with one of the highest duration and try disabling it from Windows startup.Īs you can see from the screenshot above, one of McAfee’s process takes 36 seconds to start.

Make sure to click the Add button first followed by OK.ĩ. Set it up according to the screenshot below. Go to Filter menubar and select Filter or alternatively you can press Ctrl + L. Go to the Options menubar and select “ Select Columns“.Ĩ. Process Monitor will run after it’s finished converting the boot time event data and applying event filter.Ħ. Click Yes button when you’re asked to save the collected data and save the process monitor log file. Restart your computer and run Process Monitor again when you’ve booted in to Windows.ĥ. Tick “ Generate thread profiling events“, make sure that the every second option is selected and click OK.Ĥ. Click on Options menubar and select Enable Boot Logging.ģ. Download Process Monitor, extract and run the Procmon.exe executable file.Ģ. If configured properly, you can actually use it to log boot events and analyze those events to determine which process takes a long time to start. Process Monitor is a very powerful tool by Sysinternals that is able to show file and registry activities in real time. It is very useful to determine the process that takes the most time in load. There are a few software that can trace the amount of time taken to startup a program in Windows. Here we have a few ways that can help you identify the process that is causing problems in Windows startup and shut down.

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