Formerly I had no troubes running xbootmgr. I've been trying to diagnose an issue where it takes 5 minutes to resume from sleep after the computer is left in sleep mode for many days. I've been trying today to run xbootmgr, but only get errors.
I even downloaded the lastest Windows 8 SDK and tried running xbootmgr from that (am using Win 7 64bit Ultimate):
[2012/09/29-12:40:11.946] Detected Win7RTM physical (ReadyBoot) prefetcher; the SysMain service is auto-started.
[2012/09/29-12:40:12.039] Starting trace...
[2012/09/29-12:40:14.386] Couldn't start tracing session to 'C:\BootTrace\standby_BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER_1_km_premerge.etl' (0x0000001f).
[2012/09/29-12:40:14.386] Unable to start trace.
[2012/09/29-12:55:03.625] Detected Win7RTM physical (ReadyBoot) prefetcher; the SysMain service is auto-started.
[2012/09/29-12:55:03.690] Starting trace...
[2012/09/29-12:55:05.500] Couldn't start tracing session to 'C:\BootTrace\standby_BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER_1_km_premerge.etl' (0x0000001f).
[2012/09/29-12:55:05.502] Unable to start trace.
[2012/09/29-12:55:21.567] Detected Win7RTM physical (ReadyBoot) prefetcher; the SysMain service is auto-started.
[2012/09/29-12:55:21.607] Starting trace...
[2012/09/29-12:55:22.197] Couldn't start tracing session to 'C:\BootTrace\standby_BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER_1_km_premerge.etl' (0x0000001f).
[2012/09/29-12:55:22.197] Unable to start trace.
[2012/09/29-12:57:23.525] Detected Win7RTM physical (ReadyBoot) prefetcher; the SysMain service is auto-started.
[2012/09/29-12:57:23.585] Starting trace...
[2012/09/29-12:57:24.358] Couldn't start tracing session to 'C:\BootTrace\standby_BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER_1_km_premerge.etl' (0x0000001f).
[2012/09/29-12:57:24.358] Unable to start trace.
[2012/09/29-12:57:34.616] Detected Win7RTM physical (ReadyBoot) prefetcher; the SysMain service is auto-started.
[2012/09/29-12:57:34.661] Starting trace...
[2012/09/29-12:57:35.571] Couldn't start tracing session to 'C:\BootTrace\standby_BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER_1_km_premerge.etl' (0x0000001f).
[2012/09/29-12:57:35.571] Unable to start trace.
[2012/09/29-14:29:21.089] Performance Analyzer Power Transition Performance Testing Utility (Microsoft® Windows® Performance Analyzer) Version 6.2.9200 - © 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
[2012/09/29-14:29:21.099] Detected Win7RTM physical (ReadyBoot) prefetcher; the SysMain service is auto-started.
[2012/09/29-14:29:21.191] Starting trace...
[2012/09/29-14:29:23.166] Couldn't start tracing session to 'C:\BootTrace\standby_BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER_1_km_premerge.etl' (0x0000001f).
[2012/09/29-14:29:23.166] Unable to start trace.
[2012/09/29-14:42:27.656] Detected Win7RTM physical (ReadyBoot) prefetcher; the SysMain service is auto-started.
[2012/09/29-14:42:27.721] Starting trace...
[2012/09/29-14:42:30.563] Couldn't start tracing session to 'C:\BootTrace\standby_BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER_1_km_premerge.etl' (0x0000001f).
[2012/09/29-14:42:30.563] Unable to start trace.
[2012/09/29-14:46:24.185] Detected Win7RTM physical (ReadyBoot) prefetcher; the SysMain service is auto-started.
[2012/09/29-14:46:24.233] Starting trace...
[2012/09/29-14:46:25.093] Couldn't start tracing session to 'C:\BootTrace\standby_BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER_1_km_premerge.etl' (0x0000001f).
[2012/09/29-14:46:25.093] Unable to start trace.
[2012/09/29-14:49:15.135] Detected Win7RTM physical (ReadyBoot) prefetcher; the SysMain service is auto-started.
[2012/09/29-14:49:15.185] Starting trace...
[2012/09/29-14:49:15.935] Couldn't start tracing session to 'C:\BootTrace\standby_BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER_1_km_premerge.etl' (0x0000001f).
[2012/09/29-14:49:15.935] Unable to start trace.
[2012/09/29-14:57:15.692] Detected Win7RTM physical (ReadyBoot) prefetcher; the SysMain service is auto-started.
[2012/09/29-14:57:15.749] Starting trace...
[2012/09/29-14:57:17.299] Couldn't start tracing session to 'C:\BootTrace\standby_BASE+CSWITCH+DRIVERS+POWER_1_km_premerge.etl' (0x0000001f).
[2012/09/29-14:57:17.299] Unable to start trace.