BootVice - free MS program to optimize booting?
Oct 14, 2003 | 11:51 am
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BootVice - free MS program to optimize booting?
I flew next to a IBM tech person that recommended I get this program to optimize my booting procedure on my laptop. Apparently its freeware from Microsoft. Does anybody know where I can get it and if its any good...? Thanks.
Oct 14, 2003 | 2:34 pm
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The tool is called BootVis.exe ... but according to Microsoft the optimization this tool performs is already built into Windows XP (contrary to published reports, including one I had read a while ago, so that surprised me), and MS no longer offers it for download on their public website apparently.
Oct 14, 2003 | 4:13 pm
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Oh great.... so now Im really confused...
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Oct 14, 2003 | 6:01 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Gaucho100K:
Oh great.... so now Im really confused...
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Oh great.... so now Im really confused...
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Oct 14, 2003 | 6:05 pm
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by UALOneKPlus:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/...t/BootVis.mspx[/QUO TE]
Gee, thanks for posting the same link I had already posted.
(Okay, so mine was a little more subtle...)
[This message has been edited by Beckles (edited 10-14-2003).]
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/...t/BootVis.mspx[/QUO TE]
Gee, thanks for posting the same link I had already posted.
(Okay, so mine was a little more subtle...)
[This message has been edited by Beckles (edited 10-14-2003).]
Oct 14, 2003 | 6:25 pm
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So you haven't paid attention to my in-attention in this thread...
[quote]<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Beckles:
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[quote]<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Beckles:
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Originally posted by UALOneKPlus:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/...t/BootVis.mspx[/QUO TE]
Gee, thanks for posting the same link I had already posted.
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http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/...t/BootVis.mspx[/QUO TE]
Gee, thanks for posting the same link I had already posted.
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Oct 14, 2003 | 8:07 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by UALOneKPlus:
So you haven't paid attention to my in-attention in this thread...
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So you haven't paid attention to my in-attention in this thread...
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Oct 15, 2003 | 7:40 am
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OK, so XP does this automatically. But, my booting process still takes ages.... is there anyway I can optimize this further. Ive already defragmented my hard disk. Any other tools...??
Oct 15, 2003 | 12:05 pm
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We all know time is relative but some numbers may be in order to access good/bad bootup times. My IBM ThinkPad T40 does a cold boot in 66 sec and that includes a virus program, Zone Alarm, connecting to Wi-Fi and some other stuff.
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Oct 15, 2003 | 1:33 pm
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Mr. Nice, do you know what RPM your harddisk runs? Do you have a 4200 or 7200 RPM drive?
Oct 15, 2003 | 4:23 pm
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It silently spins at 4200 rpm I believe. I dont think the T30 and T40 ThinkPads come with 7200 rpm. I was going to put together an external USB 2.0 7200 rpm drive until I heard they were MUCH noisier and also ran hotter, thus I bought and am happy with the 4200 rpm internal and external drives.
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Oct 15, 2003 | 4:31 pm
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Turn off all the services you don't need.
Failing that, just hibernate the laptop instead of letting it cold boot. That's my particular move, and it seems to work well (except that you have to boot it every few days anyway, lest it blue screen when windows gets cranky).
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Failing that, just hibernate the laptop instead of letting it cold boot. That's my particular move, and it seems to work well (except that you have to boot it every few days anyway, lest it blue screen when windows gets cranky).
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Oct 15, 2003 | 4:45 pm
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Well, I dont really have any superflous services I can switch off. As for the not cold booting... Im not confident enough in the stability of XP, so I dont think thats really an option.