Looking for utility to diagnose startup program problems

[jkauff]

When I cold-boot my Win 8.1 system, it often hangs during Windows' loading of startup programs. Sometimes I have to reboot three or four times. Soft boots work flawlessly, everything loads as it should.

Does anyone know of a utility that would allow me to monitor the loading of the startup programs so I can figure out which one is hanging up?

 

[JackMDS]

Maybe this can Help.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/what_run_in_startup.html



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[jkauff]

Maybe this can Help.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/what_run_in_startup.html



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Thanks, those are both useful tools (I primarily use Autoruns), but I'm looking for something that will show me the startup programs launching in real time during the boot process. Something like Process Monitor, but which could be configured to run at boot before all the other programs.

 

[Bubbaleone]

Process Monitor is capable of doing just that:

How To Enable System Boot Time Logging using Sysinternal's Process Monitor

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[jkauff]

Process Monitor is capable of doing just that:

How To Enable System Boot Time Logging using Sysinternal's Process Monitor

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Have you ever looked at those log files? No help for a process that starts to load, then hangs.

 

[fabler]

Had similar problem with 8.1 Cold boot and would load up to a point then hang. Using the start button to shut down. Restart and it would boot up ok. sfc/scannow showed errors that couldn't be fixed.

Ran DISM restorehealth and that showed that it couldn't fix some errors. On rebooting Windows installed a couple of updates and sfc/scannow worked and showed no errors.

PC boots up ok now.

Might not be your problem, though, but worth looking at.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/26512-dism-fixing-component-store-corruption-windows-8-a.html

 

[Elixer]

Hit ctrl+L shift + ESC (task manager), then under the startup tab, you will see 'startup impact'.
So, they tell you now. 🙂

 

[jkauff]

Had similar problem with 8.1 Cold boot and would load up to a point then hang. Using the start button to shut down. Restart and it would boot up ok. sfc/scannow showed errors that couldn't be fixed.

Ran DISM restorehealth and that showed that it couldn't fix some errors. On rebooting Windows installed a couple of updates and sfc/scannow worked and showed no errors.

PC boots up ok now.

Might not be your problem, though, but worth looking at.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/26512-dism-fixing-component-store-corruption-windows-8-a.html

Didn't solve the problem, but found and repaired some corruption, so thanks.