Optimiser windows xp bootvis

The XP defrag process will not use a third-party utility to perform the defragmentation. Any external tools must be run on their own. BootVis, which Microsoft describes as a "performance trace visualization tool," actually performs the same tasks as the XP boot process, except that BootVis allows the information obtained during a single boot to be used for optimization, rather than monitoring the system over a period of several days.

Click here to download the BootVis self-extracting archive directly from Microsoft. Extract the BootVis. Figure A Here is the BootVis main window. Figure B Select the number of reboots and driver traces for BootVis to run. Figure C Here is the BootVis boot activity graph. Figure D. Figure E This shows BootVis organizing files on the hard disk. Figure F BootVisreduced my test machine's boot time by nearly three seconds. Figure G BootVisreports no driver delays on my test machine.

Close all running applications. You can see here that you are not only limited to optimizing the regular boot sequence, but also the Standby or Hibernate sequence. More that 2 repetitions does not really make too much sense. Actually, usually 1 repetition will do the job just fine. Now a window will appear, showing a count down.

Once this reaches zero, Windows will reboot. Windows XP will now reboot. When windows restarts, if needed, login as fast as possible as this might give a slightly distorted graph - it does not have any influence on the optimalisation though!

That may be all well and good but suppose I want to put my machine in a optimized state NOW especially if I want a clean and optimized Ghost image? For MS to say it will not improve boot times is They may not have created this tool for end users, but it does work. It makes me wonder if there isn't another reason for removing it.

We already know that MS released a second version of Bootvis for P4 machines with Hyper Threading enabled which required a hotfix. Is there a problem with it and if so, won't the routines that XP runs by itself also run into these problems? Just a little harmless speculation. Maybe I can start another MS conspiracy theory?! But I digress I've provided examples from my system, and 3 other systems on my home network. One is before using Bootvis, the other is after. Keep in mind these systems have all been tweaked and the 3 other systems have had Bootvis run on them at some time in the past.

Is running Bootvis worth the 1 minute it takes?