Bootvis help

[Boyo]

I have downloaded Bootvis per someone's advice to help speed up my incredibly slow boot-up times, but there is no real documentation to help. When I hit the optimize button, all it does is hang. Help?

 

[Brazen]

Do you have Windows XP or 2000? Bootvis was designed to be used with Windows 2000 and is useless on XP. XP has the bootvis functionality built in to the OS.

 

[Navid]

When XP originally came out, Microsoft provided bootvis as a tool for optimizing XP. Later on, they changed their web sites and claimed that it was only for monitoring the boot timing and not for optimizing it. However, you can still see the old writings on some of their pages like this.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau...ry/en-us/dnxpesp1/html/xpe3rdparty.asp
"You can use BootVis to: Optimize your system for fast boot performance."

Now, this is what they say:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/fastboot/default.mspx
"Please note that Bootvis.exe is not a tool that will improve boot/resume performance for end users."

Whether XP changed in the meantime and that is why their recommendations changed, I do not know.

Anyway, if you want to play with it, you may find some instructions on web pages created by others like this one.
http://www.weethet.nl/english/hardware_bootvis.php

 

[Boyo]

I'm running WINXP, so that might explain why it does nothing.