Bootvis

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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. The boot
optimization routines invoked by Bootvis.exe are built into Windows XP.
These routines run automatically at pre-determined times as part of the
normal operation of the operating system.

Ref: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/platform/performance/fastboot/BootVis.mspx

You may wish to try the following:

Windows XP Startup Tracker
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_starttrack.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Doug Knox]

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| What is [or was] bootvis.exe and why has MS removed it from their
| downloadables?
|
| Rod
 
I hope that you are not becoming a spin spokesperson for BG & MS.[your
resonse is a direct quote from the MS pages]
MS makes a lot of noise about the stability of XP and that is reasonably
true until a minor problem upsets the whole system.
How many people complain about *trying to re-boot in safe mode only for the
system to freeze at mup.sys*?
Does Safe Mode serve any real purpose in XP? [ seems to me that the '98
version was far more intelligent]
I recently tried to add a 2nd. hard drive to a system that had been in
service 24/7 for almost 12 months. It has a good UPS, surge protection etc
and has only been re-booted a handful of times (it's a *server* in a
peer-peer setup and does nothing more than provide an internet gateway via
DSL for a few other machines connected to it).
It gave me nothing but hassles. The second drive has been removed and tested
in another PC and proved OK

IMHO, XP is a reasonably stable product until you try and do something
different with it. I understand that MS have a problem trying to accommodate
all the H/W that may be out there into their OS but in this case it was a
simple HDD (Seagate BTW) addition and XP failed miserably.
At the end of the day all I was looking for was something to tell me why my
screen froze at *mup.sys* in Safe Mode.
Maybe "bootvis" could have given me a clue but now I'll never know because
MS decided to remove it from general availabilty.
Rod
 
Visit http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm and scroll down to
Item #113 (right column) and click on "Bootvis - Performance Trace........"

[Courtesy of M-MVP Kelly Theriot]

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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"Rod" <[email protected]> babbled in message:

| I hope that you are not becoming a spin spokesperson for BG & MS.[your
| resonse is a direct quote from the MS pages]
| MS makes a lot of noise about the stability of XP and that is reasonably
| true until a minor problem upsets the whole system.
| How many people complain about *trying to re-boot in safe mode only for the
| system to freeze at mup.sys*?
| Does Safe Mode serve any real purpose in XP? [ seems to me that the '98
| version was far more intelligent]
| I recently tried to add a 2nd. hard drive to a system that had been in
| service 24/7 for almost 12 months. It has a good UPS, surge protection etc
| and has only been re-booted a handful of times (it's a *server* in a
| peer-peer setup and does nothing more than provide an internet gateway via
| DSL for a few other machines connected to it).
| It gave me nothing but hassles. The second drive has been removed and tested
| in another PC and proved OK
|
| IMHO, XP is a reasonably stable product until you try and do something
| different with it. I understand that MS have a problem trying to accommodate
| all the H/W that may be out there into their OS but in this case it was a
| simple HDD (Seagate BTW) addition and XP failed miserably.
| At the end of the day all I was looking for was something to tell me why my
| screen froze at *mup.sys* in Safe Mode.
| Maybe "bootvis" could have given me a clue but now I'll never know because
| MS decided to remove it from general availabilty.
| Rod
 
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