Bootvis tools

Windows XP was designed to optimize the boot process so users can boot their machines and access the operating system as quickly as possible. For the most part, XP is successful. There is, however, almost always room for improvement, and BootVis.

Prior to XP, Windows versions loaded drivers sequentially. Windows XP, however, loads drivers concurrently. It also records which applications are launched during startup. When the Layout. This defrag process attempts to make the files listed in Layout. This process is run in the background approximately every three days. If you were posting it you would use the light setting. The logging mode is changed from the default memory to file.

Place your computer in clean boot and compare the start up times. If there is significant improvement with clean boot then you know that it is one of the non-Microsoft applications that is impacting the boot. If there were 32 non-Microsoft items unchecked on the boot you would then check 16 of them and retest the boot.

If there was no change in boot times after this then you know that it was none of the 16 checked. If the boot significantly slowed then it was one of the This process is repeated so that the 16 is cut to 8 then 8 is cut to 4 then 4 is cut to 2 and 2 is cut to 1 which identifies the application that is prolonging the boot. Also you may find that there is more than one application that is slowing the boot.

To troubleshoot the performance issue, we could to perform a clean boot firstly to verify whether the issue is caused by a third party service. To analyze the performance issue deeply, we should use Windows performance recorder to create an event trace log file at first, then open the trace log file with Windows performance analyzer.

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Creating new profiles are typically slow, especially if the default profile has been changed. Not Geeky 3. Average 4. Good 5. Major Geeks Special Offer:. 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 Boot and resume times are measured from the time the power switch is pressed to being able to start a program from a desktop shortcut.

Some posts are auto-moderated to reduce spam, including links and swear words. You are ready to trace your boot sequence loopholes. Or you can jump to Step 5 and simply select, optimise the system.

After rebooting, this is what you are going to see. First you would see a small message saying that "please wait for bootvis to run..