Which services needed by BOOTVIS?

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Maerko

I have switched off as many XP services as I can in order to improve
performance.

However BOOTVIS gives me an error when it has completed its traces and then
I ask BOOTVIS to optimise the system.

What services are actually needed by BOOTVIS?
 
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ted said:
http://www.google.com/search?q=BOOTVIS&sourceid=firefox&start=0
&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

lots of info
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Ted, which link did you have in mind which tells me what I am looking for?

When I Googled to answer my question before posting, I found this
contradictory info:

http://snakefoot.fateback.com/tweak/winnt/files.html says two services
http://www.blackviper.com/AskBV/XP12.htm says six services
http://www.tweaktown.com/document.php?dType=review&dId=324&dPage=10 says
one service is needed.

The correct answer must be somewhere! :-) Did you find it?
 
Maerko said:
I have switched off as many XP services as I can in order to improve
performance.

However BOOTVIS gives me an error when it has completed its traces and then
I ask BOOTVIS to optimise the system.
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Bootvis is not for home users to tweak their systems:


"Please note that 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."
 
Plato said:
Bootvis is not for home users to tweak their systems:


"Please note that 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."
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I didn't think anyone believed that statement especially as many people
have found it to be untrue.
 
First of all - Bootviz DOES make a difference to end users machines. I've
used it on loads of XP machines and have sometimes eem some pretty dramatic
results!

As far as I know, the only service it needs is Task Scheduler. You can
re-enable it through administrative tools>services, just like you dissabled
it. Set it to automatic and bootvix can then use it to re-load itself after
tracing and for optimization.
 
I agree with "mad_tunes". Here's a specific example. Averatec C3500 Tablet
PC (AMD XP-M 2200+, running at 1.67 GHz, with XP Tablet 2005 [SP2]). Before
running BootViz, core boot time was 76.8 seconds and full boot was 140.8
seconds. After running BootViz and using the "Optimize System" command, core
boot time was 62.2 seconds and full boot time was 121.8 seconds. That's a
19% improvement in core boot time and a 13% improvement in full boot time.

I don't understand Microsoft's position that BootViz can't improve boot
time. Can someone explain it to me? I suspect that there is some particular
combination of CPU and OS where it doesn't work, and to avoid having to make
it work in that situation, MS just says "don't use it".
 
gfwalker said:
I don't understand Microsoft's position that BootViz can't improve boot
time. Can someone explain it to me? I suspect that there is some particular
combination of CPU and OS where it doesn't work, and to avoid having to make
it work in that situation, MS just says "don't use it".
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What is done by BootVis optimisation is *part* of what is done over a
longer period by the system's own Prefetch recording and optimisation,
which also seek to improve load times for the most frequently used
programs. So you can use BV - once - to get a start point, but should
then leave things to get an overall optimisation. What worried
Microsoft was people using BV as a regular tool, say monthly, undoing
all that other optimisation and probably spending more time running it
than actually got saved
 
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