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Thursday 9 April 2009

Getting Windows XP to boot in 20 seconds (BootVis)

My testing machine runs at 2.0Ghz and it has 512mb or RAM. It boots Windows XP in 20 seconds from moment I press the power on button to my welcome screen. Using program BootVis will greatly reduce your boot time.

What is BootVis?

Its a program developed by Microsoft which increase your boot time.

How it works? It takes an image file from your setup (scans your drivers,setup and creates an image) and optimises your system.

TUTORIAL

1. Download BootVis program from softpedia.com

http://download.softpedia.com/dl/6c88c6337e69dbfab43839fe251f753b/49de8d72/100003465/software/system/bootvis.msi


2. Install the package that you have downloaded (Double click to start the installation)

3. Once you have the package installed locate the program its located in Microsoft Bootvis on your start menu and launch the Bootvis program.

4. Once program is launched locate Trace tab and click on it

5. Click on Next Boot + Driver Delays

6. Then select OK

7. System reboot box will come up so click on reboot.

8. Computer will restart and once its fully started up wait for BootVis program to appear.

9. Once its started up it will display all statistics of your system boot.

10. Click on Trace and this time select Optimize

11. Optimizing tap appear and it takes couple of minutes to Optimize your system.

12. After completing this, a reboot will occur again. After reboot has been complete, it will take several minutes for BootVis to complete the optimization.

13. System is fully setup and on the next reboot you will notice a great difference in system boot time performance.

Combine this tutorial with my previous tutorial and you will have a very fast system.

Step by step print screens:









After system is restarted BootVis will display screen similar to this one



Then select Trace -> Optimize System



This process takes couple of minutes and after it is finished PC restarts.Boot up might take long but once Bootvis is done with optimization the next reboot should prove that your system is booting up in much shorter time period.

On my system less than 20 seconds.


Yet again I cant be legally held responsible if anything goes wrong.

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