Bootvis for Vista

[Diamontina Cocktail]

.....so far as I know doesn't exist.

However, is there another prog people recommend for the same purpose - that
being primarily to improve boot speed?

My Vista Business has been slowing down by degrees every day and even after
it is booted can be slow. So, wondering what people are using that may help
with both of these problems.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Update third party drivers.

Check you have sufficient RAM so that the system does not need to
resort to using the pagefile.

Run Disk CleanUp and Disk Defragmenter.

Remove malware / parasites.

Remove Norton and McAfee where present.

Check Event Viewer for Error Reports.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[Diamontina Cocktail]

Update third party drivers.

Done.

Check you have sufficient RAM so that the system does not need to resort
to using the pagefile.

Not possible even with 4 gigs ram. Vista still uses a pagefile even then
when fully up and running.

Run Disk CleanUp and Disk Defragmenter.

Defrag set to happen every Wednesday night automatically. Disk Cleanup isnt
a performance eating problem really supposing you have enough spare disk
space and at least in that department I am not worrying.

Remove malware / parasites.

Preaching to the choir on that one.

Remove Norton and McAfee where present.

Norton yes. A complete waste of time and effort. Mcafee no. You should use
the Virusscan part of it but uninstall or disable the rest. It works great
that way. Nevertheless I know it slows things down as does every anti virus
but these days you have to put up with that.

Check Event Viewer for Error Reports.

Only the usual complain about UPNP being turned off.

You forgot one - you should, on every single machine using NTFS, turn off
Indexing. Turning it off on C drive, at least, makes an enormous difference
in speeding up the machine.


BTW, recently built a C2D 2.4Ghz with 4gigs ram and put Ultimate on it. The
machine runs Vista fabulously as installed but when indexing turned off,
went even faster. THAT particular machine runs Vista well. I guess the old
P4 3Ghz just doesn't really cut it any longer. Of course, I would be better
off using SATA drives rather than my current IDE as that would help. Maybe I
should get off my backside and do that, too.