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Troubleshooting Startup and Shutdown Sequences with Sysinternals Tools

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Overview

Sysinternals tools are a great way to troubleshoot issues related to slow boot times and logons. This course teaches you how the Windows OS boot and logon sequences work and how you can monitor and troubleshoot related issues with Sysinternals tools.

To understand how to troubleshoot problems related to slow boot times or logons, you need to understand how the operating system actually gets started on a PC. In this course, Troubleshooting Startup and Shutdown Sequences with Sysinternals Tools, you will learn how the boot sequence on a PC works and how to use Sysinternals to solve issues relating to boot, logon, logoff, or shutdown sequences. First, you will discover how the OS really starts on a PC. Next, you will explore how a user logon really works. Finally, you will learn how to analyze why a boot or a logon is slow on your computer. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge needed to troubleshoot problems related to non-working or slow startups and logons with Sysinternals tools.

Topics:
  • Course Overview
  • Overview of the Windows Boot Process and Logon
  • Capturing a Trace of a Boot and Logon Process
  • Analyzing Automatically Starting Processes with Autoruns
  • Analyzing Driver and Network Issues Relating Boot Process

Taught by

Sami Laiho

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