Boot Performance Critical Warning

My machine (an H-P Notebook Pavilion running Vista Home Premium 64 SP2 with 4 gigs of onboard RAM plus 4gigs of ReadyBoost and 4gigs of PageFile) is generally running fine but I do install a lot of sofware apps to check them out and often uninstall them if I discover they are useless to me. I used to be an engineer before I became terminnally-ill so I really like utilities. :D Also, I tweak it frequently closely following the instructions from you really bright guys on the respected forums.
Anyway, I periodically check the event viewer logs notwithstanding that health check finds my machine to be generally healthy. I haven't experienced any boot problems other than on rare occasion it will be nearly loaded and automatically return itself to the boot screen with the H-P logo and boot up fine then.
This evening I noticed several critical events under Diagnostics-Performance Operational. I'm pasting a copy of these into this missive because I am wondering if this is anything serious.
Naturally, I don't have an original installation disk for the machine thank you H-P but I do have a set of disks that H-P provided me one time when they couldn't get my machine to burn disks from the Recovery partition that came in the first machine I purchased prior to them having to replace it when it crashed during a BIOS upgrade. I also have a raw version of my operating system I purchased but can't use because it voids my warranty.
Anyway here is what the event viewer published:


Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 06/14/2010 03:02:13
Event ID: 100
Task Category: Boot Performance Monitoring
Level: Critical
Keywords: Event Log
User: LOCAL SERVICE
Computer: MACHINE
Description:
Windows has started up:
Boot Duration : 133702ms
IsDegradation : false
Incident Time (UTC) : 06/14/2010 09:59:48
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance" Guid="{cfc18ec0-96b1-4eba-961b-622caee05b0a}" />
<EventID>100</EventID>
<Version>1</Version>
<Level>1</Level>
<Task>4002</Task>
<Opcode>34</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000010000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-06-14T10:02:13.418Z" />
<EventRecordID>1236</EventRecordID>
<Correlation ActivityID="{00000001-0000-0000-8FA0-1F53A80BCB01}" />
<Execution ProcessID="1964" ThreadID="3540" />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational</Channel>
<Computer>MACHINE</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-19" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="BootTsVersion">2</Data>
<Data Name="BootStartTime">2010-06-14T09:59:48.718Z</Data>
<Data Name="BootEndTime">2010-06-14T10:02:10.516Z</Data>
<Data Name="SystemBootInstance">167</Data>
<Data Name="UserBootInstance">154</Data>
<Data Name="BootTime">133702</Data>
<Data Name="MainPathBootTime">43189</Data>
<Data Name="BootKernelInitTime">22</Data>
<Data Name="BootDriverInitTime">8021</Data>
<Data Name="BootDevicesInitTime">5567</Data>
<Data Name="BootPrefetchInitTime">63532</Data>
<Data Name="BootPrefetchBytes">716353536</Data>
<Data Name="BootAutoChkTime">0</Data>
<Data Name="BootSmssInitTime">5053</Data>
<Data Name="BootCriticalServicesInitTime">3364</Data>
<Data Name="BootUserProfileProcessingTime">2636</Data>
<Data Name="BootMachineProfileProcessingTime">2801</Data>
<Data Name="BootExplorerInitTime">4743</Data>
<Data Name="BootNumStartupApps">14</Data>
<Data Name="BootPostBootTime">90513</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>
</EventData>
</Event>

Please let me know what you think. I have another year extended waranty that H-P provided me 'non grata' since I've had a number of other unrelated problems with the machine.

Thank you,

Metrotek

Hello Metrotek,
I have the same type of thing on my system and i have never bothered with it.
It can sometimes be caused by a driver, a piece of software you downloaded, or a number of other things.
In your case, most likely a piece of software.

If you like to try different apps, then its a good idea to keep your system files in order.

Try these free apps.

CCleaner - Optimization and Cleaning - Free Download (Backup Registry When Prompted).

Malwarebytes

Auslogics BoostSpeed - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com

Also, open a command prompt as administrator and type sfc/scannow press enter and let it scan, if errors are found you will need to run it again, until clean.
Follow this tutorial. This will check and repair damaged system files.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66978-system-files-sfc-command.html

Open "System Configuration" and check to see what programs are being loaded at startup.
To open the config utility type msconfig in the search option in the start menu and press enter.

Hope this helps, good luck and post your results.

Thanks for replying Stoney, I think you're right, it's likely nothing and as you saw in the original post its not as if it's a lot of thing 'wrong'.
I have CCleaner and Malwarebytes, I'll tryout the Auslogics. I've been using the CCleaner regularly but I read a couple of places to not use any of the registry utilities at all, just file clean-ups. I have some other cache cleaning utilities.
Thanks again,

Metrotek

As long as you backup your registry when using CCleaner you wont have any problems.
You will definitely see an improvement when using the Auslogics defrag, super fast.

Now that you know where we are, your more than welcome to drop in any time, its a great community we have here.

I just downloaded the free version of Auslogics defraging utility. That's a good recommendation regarding backing up the registry prior to running any registry utility. Thanks.
I have another query to make so I'll post tomorrow and perhaps you'll be able to assist me with this problem.
Take care and thank you for your assistance.

Your very welcome.