December 09, 2004

Decrease XP's Boot time

BootVis is a Microsoft application which works to analyze and decrease Windows XP boot time. After downloading and uncompressing BootVis, proceed with the following steps:

1. Run BOOTVIS.EXE
2. Go to Trace/Next Boot + Driver Delays
3. This will reboot your computer and provide a benchmark
4. Following the reboot, BootVis will take a minute or two to show graphs of your system startup.
5. Note how much time it takes for your system to load (click on the red vertical line)
6. Next, go to Trace/Optimize System
7. go to Trace/Next Boot + Drive Delays once more
8. Note how much time has decreased

My boot time went from 35 seconds to 26 seconds. A great improvement in my opinion.