Speeding up XP's Bootup

[fatsheep]

Here's a little guide on how to speed up your XP bootup with Microsoft Bootvis:

Microsoft Bootvis Tool
(To Speed up XP Bootup)

It's a tool you've probably never heard of before. Bootvis is no longer available from Microsoft. Nevertheless, it is a great tool for decreasing XP's bootup and resume time. It covers bootup, hibernation, and standby states. However, in this tip we are just going to make use of the Bootup optimizing.

Customer research shows a frequently requested feature that users want from their PCs is fast system startup, whether from cold boot or when resuming from standby or hibernation. The Windows development team at Microsoft has taken bold steps in making fast startup PCs a reality with the Microsoft® Windows® XP operating system.

• 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.

- Microsoft

1. Download Microsoft Bootvis. Here are some download locations for this tool:
   
   Softpedia
   MajorGeeks
   TuneXP
   
2. Defragment Your Hard Drive. This can be done either using the Windows Disk Defragmentater Tool (Accessed through Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Defragmenter) or using a 3d party program such as Dirms or Diskeeper.
   
3. Now run Bootvis (there should be a shortcut in the start menu) and select "Trace" and then "Next Boot+Driver Delays". Reboot your system.
4. When your system reboots, wait for Bootvis to open. After it opens, click "Trace" and then select "optimize". Reboot your system.
5. After reboot, Bootvis will again automatically open on startup. This time it will be optimizing your computer for minimum bootup time. This may take a few minutes so be pacient, let it finish. After it completes, you should notice faster startup times on subsequent bootups.

[westy159]

How does it make things faster? I want a technical answer here.

[Niles Crane]

How does it make things faster? I want a technical answer here.

Why not just go with the flow?

[fatsheep]

How does it make things faster? I want a technical answer here.

I will tell you... I have no idea I have looked through the help files a couple times and still feel thoroughly defeated. The important thing for me is that it DOES work and works well.

[solid]

The Bootvis program doesn't work on my computer. Whenever I start it, it gives me:

Kan entrypoint van produce WmiOpenTraceWithCursor niet vinden in DLL-bestand ADVAPI32.dll


(Can't find entrypoint of procedure WmiOpenTraceWithCursor in DLL-file ADVAPI32.dll )