Nubius
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**ATTENTION**
The following information is intended for those who have atleast a moderate level of computer skill and familiarity.
Please note that when going into the Registry it is imperative that you follow my instructions precisely. Any mistakes to the Registry can cause you to completely mess up your OS and possibly lead to a format if the wrong keys are changed.
Microsoft no longer supports this tool and as a result may not work with SP2 installed. I would advise in NOT trying this program if you are using SP2 as most have had trouble with it working correctly.
Use at your own risk
The following info is for Windows XP only. Sorry other guys....UPDATE!
There is a nice little tool that you can use to analyze your system startup. From disk usage to CPU Usage, driver delays, BIOS initialization and a few other key details to finding out what causes your system to boot as slow or as fast as it does.
The program is called Bootvis. Now originally this was a support program given out on microsoft.com but I just recently went there and they no longer support it.
The file can be found, however, here at majorgeeks.com
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664
Install this Program and it should come as a microsoft installer file which should be named this Bootvis.msi
Double click it and it will install it for you.
Now once you have the program up and running head up towards the top and click Trace>Next boot
You can select Next boot + Driver Delays if you want to see how much time your video drivers and things like that take in the total boot process time.
Now when you go to Trace > Next boot it will ask you how many times you'd like it to reboot your computer. The more times you have it reboot the more accurate your time will be. 5 repetitions is a good amount for a fairly decent average although if your system seems to boot up around the same time everytime and you just want a close estimate just doing 1 reboot will do the trick also.
Upon rebooting just wait...It'll seem like the program isn't working but after a brief moment it'll pop up saying it's saving the Trace. Shortly after that a graph will then popup with the statistics and how long it took.
Hover over any bar to find out more details. You'll see a line going verticle on the graph and this is how long it took for your machine to boot up. Hover over the top of that line which has a square and it will tell you the time it took to boot up down to .01 seconds
Now that you know how fast your machine starts up normally. Time to optimize it and test again to see how much of an increase you got.
Now go to Trace > Optimize System and just let it do it's thing.
It will finish up and now you are done optimizing!
Now just go back to Trace>Next boot and upon rebooting you'll see your new optimized startup time.
Depending on how well your computer boots anyway, that'll depend on how big of an increase you see.
My computer took 13.70 Seconds to boot. After optimizing the system it went down to 11.43 Seconds. That's a pretty good boost in time considering how fast it booted to begin with.
People who have slower computers obviously will notice more of a gain. Computer taking upwards of 45 seconds may see up to a 20 second increase but every system is different.
Hopefully you should have a nice little increase in boot time unless of course it was already fairly fast to begin with.
Boot Defragment
Another quick suggestion for a little boost in boot up time is to make sure that Boot Defragment is Enabled. You can do this via the registry.
Click Start > Run and type in Regedit
This will bring up your registry.
Now navigate to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Dfrg/BootOptimizeFunction
Once you get to that key, click on the BootOptimizeFunction and make sure it's value is set to Y
This will aid in a quicker start up.
I hope this information has been useful to you geeks and gals out there and may everyone have a hasty boot!
- Nubius
Any comments, or posts on how much of an increase you gained from it are welcome
The following information is intended for those who have atleast a moderate level of computer skill and familiarity.
Please note that when going into the Registry it is imperative that you follow my instructions precisely. Any mistakes to the Registry can cause you to completely mess up your OS and possibly lead to a format if the wrong keys are changed.
Microsoft no longer supports this tool and as a result may not work with SP2 installed. I would advise in NOT trying this program if you are using SP2 as most have had trouble with it working correctly.
Use at your own risk
The following info is for Windows XP only. Sorry other guys....UPDATE!
There is a nice little tool that you can use to analyze your system startup. From disk usage to CPU Usage, driver delays, BIOS initialization and a few other key details to finding out what causes your system to boot as slow or as fast as it does.
The program is called Bootvis. Now originally this was a support program given out on microsoft.com but I just recently went there and they no longer support it.
The file can be found, however, here at majorgeeks.com
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664
Install this Program and it should come as a microsoft installer file which should be named this Bootvis.msi
Double click it and it will install it for you.
Now once you have the program up and running head up towards the top and click Trace>Next boot
You can select Next boot + Driver Delays if you want to see how much time your video drivers and things like that take in the total boot process time.
Now when you go to Trace > Next boot it will ask you how many times you'd like it to reboot your computer. The more times you have it reboot the more accurate your time will be. 5 repetitions is a good amount for a fairly decent average although if your system seems to boot up around the same time everytime and you just want a close estimate just doing 1 reboot will do the trick also.
Upon rebooting just wait...It'll seem like the program isn't working but after a brief moment it'll pop up saying it's saving the Trace. Shortly after that a graph will then popup with the statistics and how long it took.
Hover over any bar to find out more details. You'll see a line going verticle on the graph and this is how long it took for your machine to boot up. Hover over the top of that line which has a square and it will tell you the time it took to boot up down to .01 seconds
Now that you know how fast your machine starts up normally. Time to optimize it and test again to see how much of an increase you got.
Now go to Trace > Optimize System and just let it do it's thing.
It will finish up and now you are done optimizing!
Now just go back to Trace>Next boot and upon rebooting you'll see your new optimized startup time.
Depending on how well your computer boots anyway, that'll depend on how big of an increase you see.
My computer took 13.70 Seconds to boot. After optimizing the system it went down to 11.43 Seconds. That's a pretty good boost in time considering how fast it booted to begin with.
People who have slower computers obviously will notice more of a gain. Computer taking upwards of 45 seconds may see up to a 20 second increase but every system is different.
Hopefully you should have a nice little increase in boot time unless of course it was already fairly fast to begin with.
Boot Defragment
Another quick suggestion for a little boost in boot up time is to make sure that Boot Defragment is Enabled. You can do this via the registry.
Click Start > Run and type in Regedit
This will bring up your registry.
Now navigate to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Dfrg/BootOptimizeFunction
Once you get to that key, click on the BootOptimizeFunction and make sure it's value is set to Y
This will aid in a quicker start up.
I hope this information has been useful to you geeks and gals out there and may everyone have a hasty boot!
- Nubius
Any comments, or posts on how much of an increase you gained from it are welcome
