Bootvis - Installation
Page updated 5 September 2008
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Bootvis - Installation
Page updated 5 September 2008 |
BootVis is a program, originallaly written by Microsoft but no longer available as a direct download from their site. It captures all the applications loaded during the boot process and records this to a file for later analysis.
Bootvis can be downloaded from here. It is an msi file and can be installed by double clicking.on the downloaded file.
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This is the first screen displayed. Click Next to contine. |
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Accept the standard EULA by clicking Next |
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Click Next to continue |
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Installation continues ... |
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... and completes. Click Close to finish. |
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Start BootVis using the Start menu - this is the first screen shown. |
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Select the boot option from the menu as shown on the screen shot. The option show will show both the boot and driver startup delays. |
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This screen allows the boot options to be customised. I have not explored it in any detail but it seems to allow a number of reboots to gic=ve several samples. For now we will accept the defaults |
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| Bootvis will need to reboot the computer so that the process can be monitored. Reboot will happen automatically. it can be accelarated by clicking the button. | 
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This creenshot shows the result when Bootvis is used to display the file. You may need to search for the the file TRACE_BOOT.... |
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Analysis of the resulting file is currently outside the scope of this page!