NBR Vista Tips and Tweaks Guide

[ScuderiaConchiglia]

First timer here. Phew, that's some thread. More or less read through its salient points. I was looking to reduce a long boot time (about 150 seconds from power on to log on password request), and saw Les's Top Vista Tweaks You Can Find page first before coming to this thread and, amongst those tweaks, TuneXP is still included as a remedy for slow boot, which I've used.

On this thread, though, ScuderiaConchiglia says TuneXP can harm Vista, and gives his own 2 commands which mimmick what TuneXP does regarding boot file defragging.

I just wondered what harm TuneXP can do to Vista? I only used the ultra fast boot facility as originally instructed by Les, and let the 2 processes run until the command screen disappeared. Boot time came down to about 55 seconds.

Also, are there any free 3rd party, Vista compatible applications that do the same sort of thing as ScuderiaConchiglia's 2 commands? PerfectDisk seems to do something similar but it's not free.

PS - great thread.

That one function is safe it is the other stuff it does that can be deadly to Vista. Uninstall it and use my batch file instead. Any other third party tool is going to do the same thing the batch file does.

Gary

[n01paranoid]

Thanks. I'll do that.

[n01paranoid]

Hi Gary

Just got a question about your boot defrag batch file. I've run it a few times now after various changes to start up programs, and each time after a defrag the boot time will normally go much higher than before, but will then come down alot after 2 or 3 more reboots, often to a time shorter than before. Do you know why this happens? Is it because superfetch and prefetch are 'learning' the new boot order?

Thanks in advance.

[ScuderiaConchiglia]

Hi Gary

Just got a question about your boot defrag batch file. I've run it a few times now after various changes to start up programs, and each time after a defrag the boot time will normally go much higher than before, but will then come down alot after 2 or 3 more reboots, often to a time shorter than before. Do you know why this happens? Is it because superfetch and prefetch are 'learning' the new boot order?

Thanks in advance.

I think that is a logical conclusion. Without being able to monitor the boot up with something like Process Explorer, it is hard to say. But the symptoms you describe are in line with the normal workings of the prefetch opertion.

Gary