If yous've ever had bug with your PC starting up or shutting down slowly, there'due south lots of different troubleshooting techniques that you tin can use—today we'll talk nearly how to enable verbose messages.

Enabling these verbose messages is not going to magically solve your problems, of class—the point is to apply this to identify a trouble, which you lot can and then solve through other means, generally by uninstalling a problem awarding or upgrading a faulty driver.

This article shows the procedure on Windows vii, but it still works exactly the same on Windows ten.

Enable Verbose Kick Logging for Drivers and Such

Open up up msconfig.exe through the Offset Bill of fare search or run box, and then head over to the Boot tab. You'll want to utilise 1 of these 2 settings:

  • Kick log: Apply this setting to create a text log of all the drivers that are loaded during startup.
  • OS boot information: Use this setting to display the drivers on the screen while booting (note that this seems to slow startup a scrap)

Once you've chosen your settings, click OK and reboot to encounter the change.

If you lot chose to enable the Kick log, you can but paste the following into your Run box to open up the file:

notepad %SystemRoot%\ntbtlog.txt

You'll see something like this, which shows all the drivers that loaded, and even the ones that didn't load.

If you lot chose the "Bone kick information" option, you'll actually see each driver every bit it loads. This can be helpful to come across what is taking a long fourth dimension to load.

Note: this option does seem to make booting have longer. You should probably disable the choice once you are done.

Enable Verbose Service Startup/Shutdown Messages

Windows loads up the drivers start during the black screen portion of the boot process, just so once you are looking at the regular login wallpaper screen, it is loading up services in the background. To troubleshoot this role of the process, yous'll have to flip a registry switch.

Open up regedit.exe and head to the following fundamental, creating it if the key path isn't there:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Organization

Once yous are there, create a new 32-bit DWORD on the right-hand side named VerboseStatus, giving it a value of one.

At present when yous start up or close down, you'll see more verbose messages telling you what is taking so long.

Of course, on a normal PC these messages volition wing by so fast that you won't meet anything.