XP Boot takes forever

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LarseeBear

Hi Folks,

After sweeping for trojans, viri, defragging, etc. with no problems on my
hard drive, is there a way to really isolate what is taking so long in my
boot sequence besides msconfig?

I've used msconfig but I don't see where it really gets granular enough to
say exactly how long an identifiable driver, service, or program is taking
to startup.

Thanks much for your help. Larsee
 
Hi there,

Bootvis is a Boot performance trace visualization tool for use with Windows
XP systems. It gives a graphical view of what processes are doing what and
when during boot and allow you to optimize your boot up. A very handy tool.

Download Bootvis:
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platform/performance/fastboot/BootVis.asp

This is a self extracting ZIP file. Double click the file you just
downloaded and unzip it to the folder of your choice. Locate Bootvis.exe
click on it. You will now see the GUI of bootvis.

Now go to File/New and choose "Next boot trace" or "Next boot and drivers
chase". Leave everything else as is and get ready for a reboot in 15
seconds. Then click on the Bootvis.exe, it will now output the results,
once it has finished generating the report, you will see graphs 5 or 6
graphs. From the main menu .. Click on Trace >> optimize system, then
reboot.

You will see a message box "Please wait for bootvis to load" ... about 20
seconds later another message box will appear "Optimizing system for boot
performance" basically bootvis is rearranging the boot files for a faster
startup.

HTH
Venkatesh [MS India Community Star]
 
Thanks, Larsee. You might also want to read this useful column by David Candy.

Bootvis - Explained by David Candy
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_b.htm
[XP automatically optimizes itself every three days, bootvis merely makes it the optimization happen now rather than having to wait three days. For this reason, Bootvis has been removed from Microsoft site]

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Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
www.mvps.org/sramesh2k
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More than happy to:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads17.html

Best Regards, Larsee
 
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