Opinion on bootvis?

[algae]

My XP Pro system is working like a champ. However, I have heard that bootvis
( http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platform/performance/fastboot/default.asp)
is useful to tweak the boot-up time. Any downside to using it?
Tia for any opinions.
Gary

 

[RalfHutter]

I've been running XP for 15+ months and am a diehard tweaker but I never got around to using Bootvis until a few weeks ago. XP has always booted so much faster than any other OS that I never got around to trying to tweak it, other than making sure that Prefetching was enabled.

Anyway, I tried Bootvis for the first time a few weeks ago. Ran it first to benchmark and did a screencap of the results. Ran the optimizing and did a screeny of those results too. I also timed my boot (from full OFF to fully loaded desktop with no hourglass next to the mouse pointer). I did multiple passes and averaged them. Average boot time pre-Bootvis was 47 seconds. After Bootvis optimization it was 38 seconds. Not too bad. When I compared the pre- and post- screenshots you could notice all the areas where Bootvis had speeded up driver loading. It ws pretty cool.

So, long story short, I'm a satisfied customer!

 

[Mem]

BootVis made my load times quicker with XP,you can`t really go wrong with it ,being it`s a free download & very easy to use.

 

[Lint21]

Bootvis has been good to me on several machines. Only problem I had was on an older (P2-366) laptop where, if I recall correctly, it locked up.

 

[DonaldC]

Haven't had any problems with bootvis here and it does provide some interesting information.