For example, I had a machine which was booting VERY slowly (10-15 mins at least). Using bootvis, I could see the OS was trashing the hard disk access, the MFT which had grown large enough to need a 2nd area on the disk to hold it all, and each file access was requiring 2 hard disk accesses on drastically separate areas of the hard disk. I tracked this down to having Cygwin installed on the system drive, and Cygwin includes 10,000s of tiny icon files etc, which had blown the MFT and killed system performance – not just the boot process. By simply moving the Cygwin folder to a separate partition (on the same hard disk), the system MFT became manageable again and the boot times dropped to a few minutes.

It’s also possible to identify particular device drivers which can halt the boot process waiting for events, and sometimes it’s worth setting some services to delayed start, etc., to allow the core system files to complete loading. This may not reduce the final boot time but it may make the system ‘usable’ much earlier in the boot process and the final non-essential services can continue loading in the background.

It’s a pity MS have entirely dropped support for this tool and it needs to be used with care and only really of use if you understand the underlying system in contrast to the impression this article gives.

I hope you will understand me. I download bootvis, run it and done everything as you advice on your website.

While optimazing the system for boot performance 2 error message appears;
the first one:Timeout while waiting for schedule service to start and
the second one:failed to defrag the system. Please defrag the disk manually before starting tracing.

I defrag HDD yesterday using smart defrag tool.

Any suggestion!

best regards, ksenija

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/fastboot/default.mspx

From Microsoft’s page, “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. The boot optimization routines invoked by Bootvis.exe are built into Windows XP. These routines run automatically at pre-determined times as part of the normal operation of the operating system.”

Daniela Bordis

regards
Bidyut