How quick (or not) does your PC boot up

[thatsright]

(Perhaps the most Geeked out thread I have ever started :laugh: )

I have XP Pro SP1a, and ever since I built this PC, I have used Bootvis to speed up my boot up Besides using it to optimize my boot up process, it will also tell you how quick your PC boots up.

I have a Abit IC7 1GB of Kingston HyperX PC3500 @ 2-2-2-5, WD Caviar 120GB 8mb, Radeon 9700, P4c 3.0G, Audigy 2ZS

This is what I have that boots with XP:

-Network stack
-mouse drivers
-keyboard drivers
-iconlock
-rage3d tweak
-creative volume control
-Norton AV
-Style XP (XP themes)
-net meter
-Norton Live update

Yesterday, my boot time was 39.67 seconds. I used BootVis and now its down to 24.05 seconds. Shutdown <10 sec.

Just wondering what boot times you folks are getting out there; either from a home built pc or from a company.

 

[thatsright]

bump

 

[DJFuji]

Not sure what my current rig does, but i know an old 1.2g athlon running WinME did it in less than 30 seconds. WinME might be buggy as hell and unstable, but you can't fault it for bootup times.

 

[Shagga]

Originally posted by: thatsright
(Perhaps the most Geeked out thread I have ever started :laugh: )

I have XP Pro SP1a, and ever since I built this PC, I have used Bootvis to speed up my boot up Besides using it to optimize my boot up process, it will also tell you how quick your PC boots up.

I have a Abit IC7 1GB of Kingston HyperX PC3500 @ 2-2-2-5, WD Caviar 120GB 8mb, Radeon 9700, P4c 3.0G, Audigy 2ZS

This is what I have that boots with XP:

-Network stack
-mouse drivers
-keyboard drivers
-iconlock
-rage3d tweak
-creative volume control
-Norton AV
-Style XP (XP themes)
-net meter
-Norton Live update

Yesterday, my boot time was 39.67 seconds. I used BootVis and now its down to 24.05 seconds. Shutdown <10 sec.

Just wondering what boot times you folks are getting out there; either from a home built pc or from a company.

I have a similar setup and my boot times are about the same as yours. (My dad has an old AMD setup with a USB Hub in the base of the monitor. When he has anything plugge into this hub it takes about 3½ minutes. I kid not. When he takes the USB connections out, it reduces to about 2½ minutes. LOL...You can honestly, boil the kettle, make a cup of tea and sit down before you hear the Windows startup theme tune....lol

 

[nortexoid]

"Please note that Bootvis.exe is not a tool that will improve boot/resume performance for end users. Contrary to some published reports, Bootvis.exe cannot reduce or alter a system's boot or resume performance."

link

 

[8ballcoupe]

In addition to the fact that bootvis often doesn't make much (or any) improvement in boot times, there have also been many people who have not understood the operation of the tool before using it. Interrupting the software's procedures during logging can result in trace log behavior that uses all available free space wherever the log is being recorded (usually the system partition). There have been a lot of posts in a lot of places by people who didn't realize that they had turned on a trace log via bootvis then interrupted, or even uninstalled, bootvis while leaving the trace log turned on. It's easy enough to fix once you know how, but the people who failed to read the Microsoft information on the utility are not likely to find out how to fix the runaway trace log problem without help.

Ernie

 

[GreatBarracuda]

This is what it says on the Microsoft website:

"Please note that Bootvis.exe is not a tool that will improve boot/resume performance for end users. Contrary to some published reports, Bootvis.exe cannot reduce or alter a system's boot or resume performance."

I tried the program and when I restarted the computer after setting it to "Optimize", I got a message saying "timeout while waiting for schedule to start".

 

[Kaido]

I tried out TuneXP and it seemed to help. Reinstalling XP will also help - reinstall XP, install drivers and updates, then install your programs - starting from scratch cleans all the gunk off the drive.

Also, you might want to upgrade your main drive to an SATA 10k 74gb Raptor drive...those are supposed to be pretty quick (and less than $200 now, too!).

 

[shabby]

I turn it on, i go to the can, i come back and win2k is loaded.
Thats how long it takes my comp to boot.

 

[thatsright]

Guys, I was just trying to see what other folks boot times are. I'm not trying to upgrade my hardware, just to get a faster boot up. I just wanted to get a general idea of what programs you have startup on your pc that would (or wouldn't) inhibit your startup.