How to See Last BIOS Boot Time in Windows 10  

    How to See Last BIOS Boot Time in Windows 10

    How to See Last BIOS Boot Time in Windows 10

    Published by Category: Performance & Maintenance
    07 Feb 2020
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    How to See Last BIOS Boot Time in Windows 10


    UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is a standard firmware interface for PCs, designed to replace BIOS (basic input/output system). This standard was created by over 140 technology companies as part of the UEFI consortium, including Microsoft. It's designed to improve software interoperability and address limitations of BIOS.

    The Task Manager in Windows 10 displays your computer's Last BIOS time in the Startup tab.

    The Last BIOS time metric is the amount of time in seconds that the UEFI firmware spends identifying and initializing hardware devices and running a power-on self-test (POST) before it begins booting Windows 10 when you start the computer.

    See also: BIOS Initialization Duration

    The Last BIOS time time will vary for each computer, but you can often tweak your UEFI firmware settings like below to help lower the time.

    • Turn on fast boot feature if available.
    • Turn off to display a logo at bootup, or change it's delay time to lower it.
    • Change the device boot order to remove any slow device(s) you don't use.
    • Disable network boot if not needed.
    • Disable power-on self test (POST) processes (ex: memory test) you don't want.
    • Disable any hardware controllers or ports (ex: PS/2, FireWire, USB, etc...) that you don't use.
    • Upgrading the firmware version may also improve time if the update resolves any hardware issues.

    This tutorial will show you how to see the last BIOS time for how many seconds it took your PC's BIOS (UEFI Firmware) to finish initializing at startup before booting Windows 10.


    Here's How:

    1 Open Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) in more details view.

    2 Click/tap on the Startup tab in Task Manager. (see screenshot below)

    3 Look to see how many seconds it shows for the Last BIOS time towards the top right corner.

    If Last BIOS time is blank, it means the motherboard's UEFI firmware didn't provide (ex: not supported) this information for Windows to display.


    How to See Last BIOS Boot Time in Windows 10-last_bios_time.png


    That's it,
    Shawn


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  2. FrankW
    Posts : 211
    Windows10 21H2 x64 Home, Single language, build 19044.1706
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    @Brink
    Hi Shawn
    Do you perhaps have a reference other than https://social.technet.microsoft.com...explained.aspx that explains in simple terms these Data names:
    Code:
    <Data Name="BootTsVersion">2</Data>
    <Data Name="BootStartTime">2020-09-28T02:20:52.929191800Z</Data>
    <Data Name="BootEndTime">2020-09-28T02:22:51.535931000Z</Data>
    <Data Name="SystemBootInstance">184</Data>
    <Data Name="UserBootInstance">184</Data>
    <Data Name="BootTime">56543</Data>
    <Data Name="MainPathBootTime">36543</Data>
    <Data Name="BootKernelInitTime">26</Data>
    <Data Name="BootDriverInitTime">721</Data>
    <Data Name="BootDevicesInitTime">745</Data>
    <Data Name="BootPrefetchInitTime">0</Data>
    <Data Name="BootPrefetchBytes">0</Data>
    <Data Name="BootAutoChkTime">0</Data>
    <Data Name="BootSmssInitTime">22108</Data>
    <Data Name="BootCriticalServicesInitTime">382</Data>
    <Data Name="BootUserProfileProcessingTime">313</Data>
    <Data Name="BootMachineProfileProcessingTime">24</Data>
    <Data Name="BootExplorerInitTime">9479</Data>
    <Data Name="BootNumStartupApps">4</Data>
    <Data Name="BootPostBootTime">20000</Data>
    <Data Name="BootIsRebootAfterInstall">false</Data>
    <Data Name="BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits">0</Data>
    <Data Name="BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits">0</Data>
    <Data Name="BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits">0</Data>
    <Data Name="BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits">0</Data>
    <Data Name="BootIsDegradation">false</Data>
    <Data Name="BootIsStepDegradation">false</Data>
    <Data Name="BootIsGradualDegradation">false</Data>
    <Data Name="BootImprovementDelta">0</Data>
    <Data Name="BootDegradationDelta">0</Data>
    <Data Name="BootIsRootCauseIdentified">false</Data>
    <Data Name="OSLoaderDuration">2364</Data>
    <Data Name="BootPNPInitStartTimeMS">26</Data>
    <Data Name="BootPNPInitDuration">3128</Data>
    <Data Name="OtherKernelInitDuration">687</Data>
    <Data Name="SystemPNPInitStartTimeMS">3590</Data>
    <Data Name="SystemPNPInitDuration">700</Data>
    <Data Name="SessionInitStartTimeMS">4517</Data>
    <Data Name="Session0InitDuration">1386</Data>
    <Data Name="Session1InitDuration">316</Data>
    <Data Name="SessionInitOtherDuration">20405</Data>
    <Data Name="WinLogonStartTimeMS">26625</Data>
    <Data Name="OtherLogonInitActivityDuration">101</Data>
    <Data Name="UserLogonWaitDuration">1246</Data>
    I found a couple of the names on the web but many are still obscure. My boot time with HDD varies between min. 48 to max. 56 sec. (see above) and I would like to understand the "training" process of ReadyBoot-Prefetch in Windows10
    Thanks
    Frank
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  4. Brink
    Posts : 68,881
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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       New #2

    Hello @FrankW,

    I'm not able to find any official reference material on this either so far.
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  5. FrankW
    Posts : 211
    Windows10 21H2 x64 Home, Single language, build 19044.1706
       New #3

    Thanks Shawn, I will keep "digging"
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