Attila Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 The files in the 2 folder \windows\prefetcher\ and \windows\prefetcher\readyboot are part of the prefetcher (ReadyBoot). You have to run the xbootmgr on every PC again. The files are only valid for your PC.Ok, but if I got 3 PCs that are exactly the same (installation, specs, even components), is there a way to just replicate the prefetcher (readyboot) on the other PCs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted December 15, 2010 Author Share Posted December 15, 2010 no, you can't transfer them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Attila Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 no, you can't transfer them.Ok, thanks Andre!Now, I was looking at the xbootmgr log on the users file. Just for me to understand it better, what exactly does it do? It defragments disk before prefetcher? How does readyboot knows the drivers and applications files that are "prefetched" and is there any way to edit them? I noticed that are .cab, .db files...besides a "layout.ini" file. Can you please explain more details about the process?Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 in the readyboot folder there are which which are used too prefetch the files which are used in later boot progress. Windows decides which files will be prefetch. You can't change this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick39 Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 MagicAndrei1981:As you requested . . .Dick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted December 17, 2010 Author Share Posted December 17, 2010 ok, your Windows takes 21s to boot to the desktop and 49s to boot completely.PreSMSS" startTime="0" endTime="4731" duration="4731">this is fast. detecting each IDEChannel takes 1 second.SMSSInit" startTime="4731" endTime="12571" duration="7839">Why don't you use real drivers for your card?ATI RADEON III (Standard VGA Graphics Adapter)WinlogonInit" startTime="12571" endTime="19320" duration="6748">this takes a bit too long. As you can read here, this can be caused by AntiVirus tools. I can see that you use MSE and it causes IO activity. Try version 2.0 of MSE which was released today. It has performance improvements for low spec systems like yours.interval name="ExplorerInit" startTime="19320" endTime="21305" duration="1984">this is also ok.="PostExplorerPeriod" startTime="21305" endTime="59705" duration="38400">Starting all programs at startup (Acronis, MSE) takes too long (28 seconds)But the boot is very good for such an old system (INTEL®_PENTIUM®_4_CPU_2.80GHZ, 2GB RAM). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick39 Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Many thanks, Andrei, for your helpful comments. I really appreciate them.I'll work on your suggestions; and post results afterwards.Dick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted December 19, 2010 Author Share Posted December 19, 2010 it doesn't make a difference. Boottime is the same.I can see in both that the service NlaSvc (Network Location Awareness service - http://blogs.technet.com/b/networking/archive/2010/09/08/network-location-awareness-nla-and-how-it-relates-to-windows-firewall-profiles.aspx) takes long to start.Can you run Process Monitor, enable boot logging and run the xbootmgr command? after booting, start Process Monitor again and save the data into a PML file. Zip the etl und the PML file and upload both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick39 Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Andrei:Do you want procmon output plus the 6-boot bootmanager results; or with the boot trace command?Sorry for such a basic question.Dick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted December 19, 2010 Author Share Posted December 19, 2010 now the Network Location Awareness service starts fast.I think you can't optimize the boot more.Install all Windows programs and at the end run the optimization again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick39 Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Thank you, Andrei, for all your help.May you and all your loved ones have a happy Holidayand a blessed New Year.Dick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick39 Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Thank you, Andrei, for all your help.May you and all your loved ones have a happy Holidayand a blessed New Year.DickHe's baaack . . .Andrei,When I try to use the 2 commands you show on Page 1 for calculating my improvement time, I get the following errorwith the 1st one (so I didn't even try the 2nd):error: 01_summary_start.xml: failed to open output file (0x800700005)I ran "take ownership" against the etl files, but that didn't help.What do I have to do to be able to run those 2 commands?Thanks again,Dick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted December 20, 2010 Author Share Posted December 20, 2010 where is the etl stored? Do you have writing permissions in the folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick39 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Andrei.When I run the 6-boot speedup procedure it stores them in system32, within Windows 7.If I moved them elsewhere, would the 2 commands you show to calculate the improvementfind the necessary files;, what else would I have to do?Dick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 ok, I always run the commands from a cmd prompt which points to a different path.Start cmd.exe and run cd\ ENTERMD TEMP ENTERCD TEMP ENTERMD xbootmgr ENTERCD xbootmgr ENTERrun the commands there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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