Bootvis before and after

[BananaMan]

Report your success or failure with bootvis, with your basic specs!

I did it today, I got a 21.80 second boot time down to 18.03. Nothing to write home about, but faster nonetheless.

Specs:

Pentium III 866Mhz

320mg RAM @ PC133

P.O.S. Radeon SDR 32 mg

7200rpm Quantum Fireball 32 gig HD

[MxxCon]

31.74sec before

13.83sec after

have .bin files(before and after) and screenshots to prove:D

[neowin_hipster]

I just got XP so I've only used the newer one. 15.5 sec for boot which is really amazing cuz when I was using Win9x it was slow as hell.

[hobsgrg]

I've used bootivs but it didn't speed up my boot-time, it still takes the best part of a minute to load up :(

[Kieran]

Ive always wondered when people quote boot times is that from a soft boot or power on or reset, what? there will be quite a lot of difference with power on doing memory test etc??

When u reply ill post my times

thanks

Kieran

[Tikimotel]

Pagefile Defrag (www.sysinternals.com) and normal Defrag helps more than bootvis in getting your computer to boot faster.

[hobsgrg]

Bootvis records the bootup time for a reboot but the time difference for a reboot and a cold boot is marginal at most.

[Joseph Zollo]

From power on to logon my computer takes approx 29-30 seconds to boot.

I'd like to know how MxxCon got 13 seconds :s! That's mad fast.

[MxxCon]

ya, my times are what bootvis is quoting. for POST boot add about 10sec.

i did nothing special just trace+driver delay and then optimize...

in startup i have ONLY norton antivirus, dynsite dns, hidden menu and shortcut to start dsl connection.

no bloated realplayer, winamp agent, aim/icq/msn/other crap

and also disabled/manual all unneeded services like norton speeddisk, smart card, other crap i don't remember right now:)

oh ya and i also enabled autologin in tweakui..i don't know if bootvis include time it takes to type in password and login..

[suprfli]

i used bootvis and got the nice looking graphs but what do i do beyond that? i see disk i/o, driver delays, boot activity, cpu usage...what do i do w/this information? :s

it doesn't give me real details in order to tweak anything. what can i do w/this? TIA.