Help Speed Up Re-boot

[itzbinnice]

Can anyone suggest a diagnostics program or give some tips on how to speed up my re-boot time. I have installed bootvis and has sped up my boot up time to about 40 seconds which is very acceptable.

My problem is whenever I install a program that needs re-booting it takes about 45 seconds or longer to re-boot or shut down completely.

It is not the restore feature slowing things down since I have tried several times disabling it which erases all previous saves.

I don't know what caused this slow down, when the install was done it shut down quite quickly so it must be software related.In an attempt to diagnose,I have disabled all start up programs (msconfig) and it behaves the same. It's not the computer since I have Win ME installed on a seperate drive and it re-boots in about 10 seconds.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

[Reverend]

You can find some useful shutdown/reboot tweaks here;

http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakxp/performance_tweaks.asp

http://www.winguides.com/registry/category.php/17/

[Conan]

This registry tweak will speed up your shutdown time. Just double-click to add to your registry, then reboot.

[Drewdatrip]

I think BootVis will do the trick quit nicely and simply

http://download.microsoft.com/download/whi...ootVis-tool.exe

run a trace with drives two times, choose the second file made, then optimize your startup

-Drew

[babis]

[b:ee54ab7192]itzbinnice [/b:ee54ab7192]

Suggestions:

1. As Drewdatrip mentioned make sure you correctly ran bootvis.

2. As conan suggested you might want to reconfigure the timetokillapps so you can gain a better re-boot time.

Here are the KB articles for further enrichment:

1. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;;q305788

2. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;EN-US;q146092

Further Reading.

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If you need a general idea about boot up/speeding all that stuff check. but you mentioned it works like a champ on WinME...might be worth the read.

1. http://www.tweak3d.net/tweak/winstartupnew/

2. http://www.tweaktown.com/document.php?dTyp...&dId=67&dPage=1

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[i:ee54ab7192]on a side note, the beauty of having a forum is that we all share the same feelings and ideas. Thus, someone might have asked before how to increase boot speed. Anyhow what I'm getting to is try to use the serach function in MSFN. Might just save you time and find the answers to your questions ASAP. ;-) [/i:ee54ab7192]

[itzbinnice]

Thanks guys for all the suggestions, but I tinkered with the computer before going on line and it's even faster re-booting now then WinME. Takes about 8 to 10 seconds.

I had visited and printed many of the tips on the tweak sites and applied them. I am running 640 MB ram and one of the tweaks said to either eliminate or reduce the page file to 50MB if running more than 512 MB. I did set it to 50 MB and it was doing fine. Then one day last week a sign pops up and says I am very low on memory. I go back in and change the page file back to let windows manage. It creates a 952mb page file since I have a 60 gig drive. I forget about this change and after re-reading the tweaks it refreshed my diminishing mental capacity. I said let me get rid of the page file and see what happens. I tell XP no page file, yet it leaves the 952 MB in the root directory, I delete. While I was in the memory performance options I also checked the box that indicates "adjust best performance of system cache", the adjust for programs box had been checked.

My only remaining question is should I keep the box checked for system cache or check the one for programs?

After I sign off the net tonight I will run bootvis again since when I ran it yesterday the page file was present.

P.S. Conan, thanks for the download, I'll install that after I shut down.