any other ways to speed up startup beside disable

[Marsden]

Bootvis does speed up the boot process at least for me it has.

What an interesting effect a reporting tool has on users. Bootvis only reports... it's not a tweak tool!

Live the fantasy!

[oftentired]

From the Bootvis help file:

Bootvis is a tool for easily enabling capture and graphical display of boot and resume performance trace data in Windows XP.  Bootvis by itself will not change a system's boot or resume performance.  Bootvis is intended as an aid to allow designers and manufacturers to characterize their system's performance during Windows startup in order to identify areas for further investigation and opportunities for performance improvement.

What may be missunderstood about the Bootvis tool is the Menu selections Trace > Optimize System. The word "Optimize" in that menu selection might lead one to think the tool will somehow optimize the boot process so that it is faster. This is what MS has to say about it:

Bootvis.exe is not a tool that will improve boot/resume performance for end users. Contrary to some published reports, Bootvis.exe cannot reduce or alter a system's boot or resume performance. The boot optimization routines invoked by Bootvis.exe are built into Windows XP. These routines run automatically at pre-determined times as part of the normal operation of the operating system.

MS Webpage concerning "Fast Boot / Fast Resume Design"

[oftentired]

In situations where you are fairly certain a folder or file exists and you have difficulty locating that file or folder a reliable method of locating it is to Right Click My Computer and select Search (XP/ME) or Find (95/98/SE) and perform a search of the drive in question for that file or folder.

Another method to reach Search or Find dialog is to click Start > Search or Start > Find as the case may be.

[Takeshi]

I find that adding RAM is the single most significant step in speeding up booting and searching for network causes the most delay.

Of course you need to do the regular maintenance like defrag and keeping startup apps to a minimum.

A lot of reg tweaks are of dubious benefit.

Trimming System Services has only a small improvement.

Bootvis had a minimal effect on my computer.

Defragging the boot/system partition from another Windows installation in a dual or multi-boot system is also very efficient - it should defrag all the system files and the registry etc.

The Prefetch can be a good and bad thing; if you enable boot and app prefetch (EnablePrefetcher =3) it prefetches every application you open but might only use sparingly, which is not really ideal. I only use boot prefetch (EnablePrefetcher =2).

[Jeremy]

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