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I am considering whether to run Boot Vis or not on my WinXP systems. One is a P2 450 and the other is a P4 1.5 both with 256MB Ram, 7200rpm HD.

Will Boot Vis decrease the boot up times of my systems as ppl have said? Also some ppl have said that after extensive usage, boot times actually increase with those after running Boot Vis is this true?

Help me out with it? Should I run Bootvis or not and what are your experiences thnx.

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Mista..all bootvis does is optimize the boot files and whatnot. WinXP has this feature built in and it will do it automatically but it takes some time for XP to build up a list of what you use most often. Bootvis forces XP to optimize immediately rather than later. Theres no adverse side affects

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My winxp pro used to take like 20 - 30 seconds to boot, I ran bootvis and now it takes about a minute.

:right:

I guess I could try it again and see if that doesn anything, but I dont wanna make it worse.

:ponder:

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All it does is defrag the system boot files. It helped my speed quite a bit, now the loading user config screens fly right by. (as well as all the winxp screen) I didn't have to check time, you can feel how quicker it is.

But make sure Tast sched. and com system services are on or it won't work. It will error saying the service didn't load.

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Update: I just tried bootvis again to see how it would do defragging approx two days after the first run and it dropped me from 17.5 to 15.5 seconds. I recommend if you do try bootvis, defrag your main C: drive before the initial run.

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