Make Windows XP boot faster with Bootvis

Posted by Martin in Operating Systems, Windows  Tags: , , ,

25

Jun



Many of you might know the discountinued freeware microsoft bootvis, for those who do not. Bootvis analyses the boot process and measures the startup time from cold boot, hibernate and standby. After analysing the startup process it will optimise it so that boot times of one or more minutes are a thing of the past. It´s a great tool if you have a computer that is slowly booting into windows xp.
The design goals for Windows XP on a typical consumer PC are:

- Boot to a useable state in a total of 30 seconds
- Resume from Hibernate (S4) in a total of 20 seconds
- Resume from Standby (S3) in a total of 5 seconds


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Max says:

Is this program safe to use? And what exactly does it do? How does it boot XP faster? Does it turn off some of the startup programs or what?

Martin says:

Max the tool was developed by Microsoft itself and should be safe to use. It optimises file placement on hard drive for files that are needed during boot up as far as I know.

Max says:

Thanks a lot Martin. =)

Jayse says:

Bootvis is a waste of time and space Because XP already dose these tasks itself, on average it dose it every 3 days. Bootvis was made for developers to help tune thier software.
I’ve tried it myself and it makes no difference, a good defrag will speed things up more than this tool.

Martin says:

Well Jayse it made my system faster. Believe it or not..

matt says:

jayse is more or less correct - the cool bits of bootvis were built into xp. ts handy for one time diagnosis etc, but its not a magic fix-all.. youre better off doinglike jayse recommends, defrag your hard disk, and clean some of the crap off it! so many people have so much junk on their pc that they dont need, or, does a job that another program does already.. :)

Guest says:

Quote from Microsoft:
“Please note that Bootvis.exe is not a tool that will improve boot/resume performance for end users. Contrary to some published reports, Bootvis.exe cannot reduce or alter a system’s boot or resume performance.”
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/fastboot/default.mspx,

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