OMG i just used TuneXP, and my OS boots up ALOT quicker :D

[RichUK]

i just thought that i would share my experiences with this prog .. i guess some of you have already used this prog before maybe/maybe not, but i cant believe the difference it has made, it boots so much quicker ..

very much needed software

found Here


Here is the configuration i would recommend


Enable the following in the ?Memory and file system? option (it will have a tick next to the option when you have enabled it)

First click on the ultra fast boot-up (rearrange boot files), this will take a little while

then go on to enable the following:

1. Accelerate DLL unloading

2. Disable paging executive

3. Faster shutdown

4. File allocation size tweak

5. Optimize prefetch

6. Increase NTFS performance

Then click on the "clear prefetch folder", a command prompt box will appear then press Y for yes and then hit enter, this will clear the prefetch folder.

Do NOT enable "clear paging file on shutdown" (this makes the PC take ages to shut down every time) you could try this now and then to clear the page file for the next boot, but don?t have it on there always otherwise it will annoy you




Now go into the Hardware tab and enable:

1. Increase CPU priority

2. Speed up windows IRQ handling



NOTE: Before you do this run a spyware, virus scan and defrag program on your system and then reboot the PC, then do the procedure i have outlined above. Now check out the boot times of your OS, and also the whole responsiveness of the system is just better, be amazed ... its well worth a try its worked for me and i highly recommend it


Enjoy and i hope it works for you as it did for me

 

[EULA]

just downloaded it, and I must say that with a EULA like this:

All use is on your own responsibility. Neither DriverHeaven nor D-Force will take any responsibility for damage done to your system, you or your girlfriend after using TuneXP.

It must be good...

 

[RichUK]

well i was getting p1ssed that my OS suddenly started to load up slower then usual with alot of HDD action that wasn?t needed .. this was after i installed a few programs after a OS re-install, mainly Norton IS 2005..

then after discovering this program, I found that it just sorted things out and now loads quite quick.. like i said just wanted to share

 

[EULA]

I actually did see a slightly quicker boot time. It would be nice if there were a little bit more in-depth explainations of some of the items, but otherwise it seems to work!

 

[omarmakki]

Well, I have tried it and it almost didn't make a difference.
I guess it differs from system to system...

 

[daniel49]

tried it before can't say it made any difference at all on my boot.

 

[vtohthree]

I stumbled upon this thread and had to try it out for myself. I downloaded before posting and clicked on the "quicker booting"(something along those lines) I had to wait for hours for it to finish. After I restarted... maybe it's just me but I noticed that the initial startup was a little bit slower, then came the loading for winXP, 3 more bars passed by then usual. So it did make it slower in those aspects?(maybe another restart will change things)

HOWEVER without question, once windows opened it loaded a lot faster! Normally it takes quite a while before my computer becomes functional, the usual hard-drive-spinning-like-crazy syndrome for a couple minutes even though everything seems to have loaded.

So yeah, I did notice a difference. Thanks OP!

 

[hurubi]

Crap I clicked rearrange Boot Files hope nothing bad happens.

 

[RichUK]

UPDATE: Sorry i should have advised on what to configure as well, retry and try the below options


Here is the configuration i would recommend


Enable the following in the ?Memory and file system? option (it will have a tick next to the option when you have enabled it)

First click on the ultra fast boot-up (rearrange boot files), this will take a little while

then go on to enable the following:

1. Accelerate DLL unloading

2. Disable paging executive

3. Faster shutdown

4. File allocation size tweak

5. Optimize prefetch

6. Increase NTFS performance

Then click on the "clear prefetch folder", a command prompt box will appear then press Y for yes and then hit enter, this will clear the prefetch folder.

Do NOT enable "clear paging file on shutdown" (this makes the PC take ages to shut down every time) you could try this now and then to clear the page file for the next boot, but don?t have it on there always otherwise it will annoy you




Now go into the Hardware tab and enable:

1. Increase CPU priority

2. Speed up windows IRQ handling



After you have done all of this defrag your system and reboot the PC. Now check out the boot times of your OS, and also the whole responsiveness of the system is just better, be amazed ... its well worth a try its worked for me and i highly recommend it


NOTE: these optimisations will only take affect after you have rebooted (also make sure you have defragged before you reboot, you could also run a spyware prog before rebooting aswell to get rid of any nasties )

Enjoy and i hope it works for you as it did for me

 

[RichUK]

BUMP

People have to have tried it, post here with your results, thoughts etc

 

[Stumps]

this program really helped my boot up time which went from reasonable to insanely slow after installing norton internet sercurity 2005, boot time speed up by about 2 minutes back to almost it's original speed before NIS2005.

 

[drag]

Maybe something better to aim at would be getting suspend to ram or suspend to disk working?

Because that way you can avoid shutting down in the evening and such and just let it go to sleep.

I know though on desktops it can be very hard to get it to work correctly as it depends on the add-on PCI cards and such to support ACPI and such. But suspend to disk shouldn't be to hard...

For instance I have my Linux on a Ibook (could just as easily be Windows XP on a Dell laptop) and when I close the lid it goes to sleep (suspend to ram), I stick it in it's bag and it'll sit like that for days if I feel like it.. maybe even for a couple weeks and when I pull it out of the bag and open up the lid it's on again in under 2 seconds like nothing ever happenned with all my apps running and everything.

If I used suspend to disk it would take longer to get running again, but it sleep like that for practically forever.

And then everything is much more optimized then during a reboot since everything is already running and all my apps and everything is loaded into memory....

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: drag
Maybe something better to aim at would be getting suspend to ram or suspend to disk working?

Because that way you can avoid shutting down in the evening and such and just let it go to sleep.

I know though on desktops it can be very hard to get it to work correctly as it depends on the add-on PCI cards and such to support ACPI and such. But suspend to disk shouldn't be to hard...

For instance I have my Linux on a Ibook (could just as easily be Windows XP on a Dell laptop) and when I close the lid it goes to sleep (suspend to ram), I stick it in it's bag and it'll sit like that for days if I feel like it.. maybe even for a couple weeks and when I pull it out of the bag and open up the lid it's on again in under 2 seconds like nothing ever happenned with all my apps running and everything.

If I used suspend to disk it would take longer to get running again, but it sleep like that for practically forever.

And then everything is much more optimized then during a reboot since everything is already running and all my apps and everything is loaded into memory....

Isn't that like the Hibernate function within XP, it does exactly what you say, it sends the current state of you system to be stored in the RAM (of course the RAM is still receiving power so it is not in its volatile state), so all you have to do is just press the power button in and and the OS will have all you previously opened apps and everything opened as it previously was, this of course depends on how much RAM you have, but I think it can also offload onto the HDD as well to the page file or whatever if it requires more space.

As far as I know everything powers down except for the RAM, which just keeps receiving power to hold its memory, and then when turned on it does what it has to do, to restore back to the previous state ..

 

[drag]

Ya, exactly...

The technical names have things like S0, S1, S2, S3, S4, S5. I forget the windows terminology for this stuff.

So that's six states for ACPI machines...
S0 = state zero, which is fully powered and on..
S1 = "standby" or when your monitor simply goes blank, the harddrives park and are powered off and such.
S2 = is more agressive were power is shut off to more things and the cpu is powered off. The motherboard, I think, stays generally awake and monitors stuff waiting to repower everything.
S3 = is the lowest state you go and still require power. This is what I called 'suspend to RAM'. That is everything turns off except for the 5volts for the motherboard to maintain energy for the RAM and for the firmware to monitor events that trigger it to wake up.

S2 and S3 are pretty much the same, I think. They are refered to as 'instant on', or 'sleep', and other similar terms. It's a bit mixed up. I think this is what your thinking of with 'hibernate'

S4 is "suspend to disk" in Linux and that's Hibernate in Windows XP's terminology. (I think, the terms are messed up... at least is seems like that for me) In this state everything is shut off and before that happens the contents of RAM are written to disk. There was a similar thing in APM-using older laptops were they had a special fat32 partition for writing the contents to disk and this was done automaticly by the bios.

S5 is completely shut off, the system is powered off, the OS is off. This is normal 'shutdown' were you have to reboot to get working again.


In computers any POS can do S1, it's unremarkable.

S4 is next easiest to get running. (suspend to disk) Even with desktop componates most can be powered off and still work fine. This is because your going thru halfway thru the regular bootup proccess before you load up your RAM contents back to main memory.

S3 (and S2, I think) is very difficult to get working as all hardware componates must work together to have it work properly.. Mostly only well designed laptops can do this with good OS support. Each peice needs to be able to power off and then reinitialize back to were it was before being shutdown. This would be hard to do with a desktop unless you use carefully selected hardware in tested configurations that supports these features.

 

[drag]

Here I found this article... It's a bit old from 2002, but it may still be accurate since it's for Windows XP.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/tabletpc/getstarted/standby.mspx

It makes it sound like 'standby' is S2 or S3... But it could be S1. It's not very specific on exactly what happens... Maybe they are thinking of APM terms.. the six states only applies to ACPI stuff.

Hybernate is definately S4

 

[RichUK]

thanks for the info drag :thumbsup:

this shall be saved in my favourites for future reference

 

[vtohthree]

Originally posted by: drag
Ya, exactly...

The technical names have things like S0, S1, S2, S3, S4, S5. I forget the windows terminology for this stuff.

So that's six states for ACPI machines...
S0 = state zero, which is fully powered and on..
S1 = "standby" or when your monitor simply goes blank, the harddrives park and are powered off and such.
S2 = is more agressive were power is shut off to more things and the cpu is powered off. The motherboard, I think, stays generally awake and monitors stuff waiting to repower everything.
S3 = is the lowest state you go and still require power. This is what I called 'suspend to RAM'. That is everything turns off except for the 5volts for the motherboard to maintain energy for the RAM and for the firmware to monitor events that trigger it to wake up.

S2 and S3 are pretty much the same, I think. They are refered to as 'instant on', or 'sleep', and other similar terms. It's a bit mixed up. I think this is what your thinking of with 'hibernate'

S4 is "suspend to disk" in Linux and that's Hibernate in Windows XP's terminology. (I think, the terms are messed up... at least is seems like that for me) In this state everything is shut off and before that happens the contents of RAM are written to disk. There was a similar thing in APM-using older laptops were they had a special fat32 partition for writing the contents to disk and this was done automaticly by the bios.

S5 is completely shut off, the system is powered off, the OS is off. This is normal 'shutdown' were you have to reboot to get working again.


In computers any POS can do S1, it's unremarkable.

S4 is next easiest to get running. (suspend to disk) Even with desktop componates most can be powered off and still work fine. This is because your going thru halfway thru the regular bootup proccess before you load up your RAM contents back to main memory.

S3 (and S2, I think) is very difficult to get working as all hardware componates must work together to have it work properly.. Mostly only well designed laptops can do this with good OS support. Each peice needs to be able to power off and then reinitialize back to were it was before being shutdown. This would be hard to do with a desktop unless you use carefully selected hardware in tested configurations that supports these features.

How do you adjust your standby settings? I mean how can you choose whether or not it goes into S0...S5 for example. I'm asking because on my laptop, it used to go to maybe an S3, in which the monitor, harddisk, and cpu all turned off, infact it seemed like it was completely off, other than a flashing led that would blink every 10 sec. or so. I liked that a lot, as soon as I turn on the power button it goes back to where it was, it was very quick, no loading or booting back up like hibernate.

However, after I got my mobo switched out(I have a I5150, with the infamous cracking boards) it no longer does this. When I hit the standby button, everything is still on!!! Except the monitor, but you can hear the cpu fan fluctuate, the hard disk spinning up a storm, everything is completely active, hate it!

Can tuneXP change this back?

 

[SinNisTeR]

Hey... I just noticed Drag is Elite. Congrats, if anyone deserved it, it's you! Keep up the good work.