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Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2009

Filed:

Dec. 29, 2005
Applicants:

Shridhar Diwan, Hyderabad, IN;

Vishal Mehrotra, Hyderabad, IN;

Jay Herbison, Beijing, CN;

Inventors:

Shridhar Diwan, Hyderabad, IN;

Vishal Mehrotra, Hyderabad, IN;

Jay Herbison, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/24 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Techniques for measuring an operating system's boot duration are provided. The techniques include adding a startup application to an operating system's list of startup applications, determining when the startup application was invoked, and calculating a boot duration for the operating system. The techniques further include loading a log file containing indications of system activity occurring during a boot process, identifying a time interval having a peak system activity, identifying another time interval having a fraction of the peak system activity, and indicating that the boot process completes at a time during the second time interval.


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