The startup speed of an operating system usually receives more attention than it deserves. Only a few users are booting their systems more than a few times per day, most users probably only once and it should not really matter if that startup takes 30 seconds or 2 minutes. The startup is on the other hand the first impression about an operating system and if it starts slowly the assumption could be made that everything else would be slow as well.
BootRacer is a windows startup speed benchmark utility that targets the general Windows user. No technical knowledge is required to run the software program. What makes it more interesting than other programs with a similar functionality (Boot Timer) is that it rates the startup time. This gives the user an impression on how his system rates when compared to other Windows systems. Another advantage is that BootRacer records several values, to be precise the time it takes boot to logon and to the desktop.
The boot speed rating will get the highest rating if the startup speed of the Windows operating system is below 60 seconds. Many systems will fall into that category and it would probably make sense to change the ratings to reflect this.
BootRacer can be configured to run at every system startup or only once. It would make sense to run it on every startup in the optimization phase. If you are confident about your boot time you might want to run it once to see the results.
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I can do same with my watch.
It would start to be interesting if it could say what is slowing down, especially which service.
you can probably (if you know what to look for and exactly how to tweak it) do that with BootVis .. Despite what MS says “XP users DO NOT NEED THIS ” .. I have found it helps a bit .. granted it’s not “OMG !.. BOOT IS 300% FASTER NOW!”… but after “optimizing bootup” in BootVis, I did notice a reasonable speedup in startup timing.
thanks, Xmetalfanx, but my researches led me to this software also. Yes, “but”, because the tool was totally useless for me. It happened that a service was the cause of the slowness. The whole story was that after I tried a specific software that allows to map a drive for an ftp server, the startup was much slower. and that was an important service that was doing that. obviously, it was something related to the network, but I could never find what. So, finally, this tool could only point me to a generic microsoft service, which is indeed totally useless(no way I can afford to disable it).
so, that’s my story about bootvis.