Boot Defragment Enabled, Not Working

[Ken]

Hi, All,

I believe I might have a problem with my eight month old
Dell 5150 laptop
(Pentium 4\HT,500 MB RAM, Win XP Home Ed.)

The system basically works well, although it takes over
two minutes to boot up. There are no error messages, etc.

I've been surfing the 'net out of curiosity, and I have
found a number of web sites that suggest "tweaks" to
speed up boot time. (I HAVE NOT TRIED ANY OF THESE YET,
and I haven't made any changes to my Boot.ini or other
boot files, or my Registry!!)

One of the tweaks suggested is to make sure the feature
is enabled that allows Win XP to do a Boot Defrag, by
checking the Registry for the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFun
ction

and make sure the value for "Enable" is set to "Y"

When I checked the appropriate Registry key on my system
this is what I see:

(Default) REG_SZ (value not set)
Enable REG_SZ Y
<no entry for TimeFileStamp>
LcnEndLocation REG_SZ <this is blank>
LcnStartLocation REG_SZ <this is blank>
OptimizeComplete REG_SZ No
OptimizeError REG_SZ missing registry
entries

Does this mean that my machine has never succesfully
completed a Boot Defrag?

Is ther anything I can do to find out what the "missing
registry entries" are, and how to either restore them or
clear the registry keys so the system tries again to do
the defrag?

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!

Ken

 

[Rich Barry]

Ken, if you look at what you posted Enable Reg_sz Y means it's set
to Y so you are doing Ok.

 

[Ken]

Actually, the Registry shows that the optimization
(defrag) did NOT occur in spite of the defrag being
enabled, the error being that there are "missing registry
entries".

Any ideas?

 

[Greg Hayes/Raxco Software]

A classic case of when "tweak sites go bad".

There is no ability for Windows XP to perform a boot defrag. Period. This
can only be done via 3rd party software.

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows File System

Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a
commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

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