DarkLeftos
29-09-2005, 01:37 PM
This was taken straight from my blog at http://leftos.blogspot.com, pay it a visit if you like this post.
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Want to make your computer run... er... boot like Forest Gump? (I know Forest Gump never booted. For one he wasn't a PC.)
I know it's not a new dig or anything, but Microsoft BootVis can solve the long booting times of Windows XP. It's a program that will trace the booting sequence of your computer and find which drivers or processes delay the start of your boot and present to you in nice, quite understandable graphs. But it doesn't stop there. It goes a step further and optimizes all the drivers and processes so that Windows XP can boot faster. And it works.
I, myself, got 10 seconds less in boot time after the optimization. From 31 secs I went down to 21, but I've seen people with slower computers or more heavily driver-loaded PCs gain much more. A read a guy's blog that mentioned that he went down from 71secs to 30secs!
However, Microsoft has recently posted that BootVis does NOT optimize boot times, and that all those optimizations are built-in Windows XP, which is a blatant lie, as we wouldn't have such results after using it.
I don't think Micorsoft distributes BootVis anymore, but you can find it at MajorGeeks. Give it a try!
Download it here! (http://leftos.blogspot.com/www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664)
A small tutorial for newbies:
1. Install it by double-clicking the MSI file.
2. Start it up from the Start Menu.
3. File > New > Next Boot + Drivers Trace
4. Leave all options as are and click OK. Let your PC restart.
5. Log-in (if you need to) and let the loading sequence finish. Do NOT do anything before you see the BootVis window opening. Your PC might seem idle for something less than 40 seconds, but trust me BootVis is working and will open by itself.
6. You'll be able now to see full info on all the stuff that went on during your computer's boot (at least those you should care about) and a brown square with a line below it on each graph. Hovering your mouse over the brown square should tell you how much time it took for your PC to boot.
7. Go to Trace > Optimize System. If you're presented with options, leave them as are.
8. Let your computer restart. After you log-in (or after the computer does that for you) the optimizing sequence should start. It will take about 2-3 minutes on fast PCs, more on slower ones.
9. After the optimizing, start BootVis again and go to Trace > Next Boot + Drivers Delays. Let your restart.
10. Here is Step 5 again. Go to Step 11 afterwards.
11. Hover your mouse over the brown square, you'll notice that there's a difference on your boot time, and it's hopefully much less than before. If you didn't notice how faster your computer booted, why don't you restart it once again now? Just for the fun of realizing everything went great!
Have fun optimizing!
______________________________________________________________
Want to make your computer run... er... boot like Forest Gump? (I know Forest Gump never booted. For one he wasn't a PC.)
I know it's not a new dig or anything, but Microsoft BootVis can solve the long booting times of Windows XP. It's a program that will trace the booting sequence of your computer and find which drivers or processes delay the start of your boot and present to you in nice, quite understandable graphs. But it doesn't stop there. It goes a step further and optimizes all the drivers and processes so that Windows XP can boot faster. And it works.
I, myself, got 10 seconds less in boot time after the optimization. From 31 secs I went down to 21, but I've seen people with slower computers or more heavily driver-loaded PCs gain much more. A read a guy's blog that mentioned that he went down from 71secs to 30secs!
However, Microsoft has recently posted that BootVis does NOT optimize boot times, and that all those optimizations are built-in Windows XP, which is a blatant lie, as we wouldn't have such results after using it.
I don't think Micorsoft distributes BootVis anymore, but you can find it at MajorGeeks. Give it a try!
Download it here! (http://leftos.blogspot.com/www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664)
A small tutorial for newbies:
1. Install it by double-clicking the MSI file.
2. Start it up from the Start Menu.
3. File > New > Next Boot + Drivers Trace
4. Leave all options as are and click OK. Let your PC restart.
5. Log-in (if you need to) and let the loading sequence finish. Do NOT do anything before you see the BootVis window opening. Your PC might seem idle for something less than 40 seconds, but trust me BootVis is working and will open by itself.
6. You'll be able now to see full info on all the stuff that went on during your computer's boot (at least those you should care about) and a brown square with a line below it on each graph. Hovering your mouse over the brown square should tell you how much time it took for your PC to boot.
7. Go to Trace > Optimize System. If you're presented with options, leave them as are.
8. Let your computer restart. After you log-in (or after the computer does that for you) the optimizing sequence should start. It will take about 2-3 minutes on fast PCs, more on slower ones.
9. After the optimizing, start BootVis again and go to Trace > Next Boot + Drivers Delays. Let your restart.
10. Here is Step 5 again. Go to Step 11 afterwards.
11. Hover your mouse over the brown square, you'll notice that there's a difference on your boot time, and it's hopefully much less than before. If you didn't notice how faster your computer booted, why don't you restart it once again now? Just for the fun of realizing everything went great!
Have fun optimizing!