ReBoot Time

[johngalt]

Glad you said something ron - AllMac, that is not Eureka, is it? :P

 

[ronakp10]

no, his avatar is gaara from the anime naruto. his badass and insanity quotient are off the charts. so johngalt, can I have a fully functioning computer if I did what the guy did with a 60 second boot time? Or will I have to enable programs when I log in?

 

[johngalt]

Ahh, Naruto - I knew it was familiar :P I thought it might have been Eureka, especially as she looked in the middle episodes after having gotten sick when she tried to merge herself with the Coralian in the Scab mines.

It depends - I have a lot of programs that auto start but I want them to, and my AV takes out a chunk of time booting - I am not worried about how long my computer takes to reboot so much because, personally, I rarely turn off my computer - boot times are not as important to me as app response.

Also, which guy with the 60 second boot time? there were more than a couple, IIRC - and you'd have to ask them *exactly* what they did to get an idea - did they tweak services? Did they use Safe mode? Did they just disabled every friggin startup app and measure?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

does the "cold start" posted by Bare Foot Kid allow full functionality? I nearly have over 100 running at startup and I don't what half of them are. what would be different if I disabled services like Bonjour, WLAN AutoConfig, Virtual Desk, or Telephony?

Hello ronakp10, welcome to Vista forums!

@John, I think he's talking about me.
BTW, after I added a couple programs at startup it takes a while longer.
Like John said; it's how I want it now.





Later Ted

 

[TheShadow]

does the "cold start" posted by Bare Foot Kid allow full functionality? I nearly have over 100 running at startup and I don't what half of them are. what would be different if I disabled services like Bonjour, WLAN AutoConfig, Virtual Desk, or Telephony?

You definitely DON'T want to shut down any "Service" if you don't know what it does, or how it relates to, or depends on, other services.
Shut down "Telephony" for instance and you'll kill your internet connection.
I learned my lesson about that, early in my experience with Windows XP.
Shutting down un-needed services by guesswork is very dangerous at best and catastrophic at the worse. I had to reload XP six times before I caught on to the proper way to shut down services.
I finally learned how to rely on 'System Restore' to recover from little 'Ooops!', like shutting down a needed service.

So when I finally decided to do it with Vista, I went right to the 'source' for the best information. I went to "Black Viper's" web site and studied his recommendations for shutting down services, then I opted to only do what's listed in the "SAFE" column.
Windows Vista SP1 Service Configurations by Black Viper

I found 22 services that I could either disable or put into "Manual" mode.
In any case, none of those 22 services will load during the boot-up process.

I've run my batch file to shut down those 22 services on my own two PC's that run Vista and I've seen no loss of functionality.

When you start messing around with the registry, or shutting down services, it's always a good idea to make a new Restore Point before you start.
I force a new restore point every time I boot up, with a script in my "Startup" folder, so if I screw something up I've always got a fresh restore point (not more than just a few hours old) to go back to.
I have to do a Restore at least once a week, with all the programs that I test, etc.

I always hope that hearing about my own adventures and misadventures will benefit someone else who wants to go where I've been. It's been a rocky road!

Y'all have a great day now, Y'hear?
The Shadow

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

Yes, I posted a reboot time of 53 seconds - that is largely because I have only got the essentials coming in at startup - firewall, antivirus, antispyware and video card. I prefer to click on each app. as I need it - they start immediately. Other people prefer to have a load of stuff already started - it's up to you.

SIW2

 

[Mr GRiM]

Hi everyone I have Vista Ultimate 64bit and my computer was quick when i first installed it but over time became slow, especially when it came to start up and shut down. But with help from Visa Forums that has all changed and now its better than ever e.g. it used to take about 5 minutes for a restart but now it only takes 96 seconds, now that's an improvement

I am running a 2.13ghz dual core @ 2.81ghz O/C, 1600FSB, 4gigs of low latency ram at 5,4,4,12 800mhz and a Galaxy Geforce 9600GT 512mb O/C and all this on a ASUS P5K-SE Mother board

I have left all windows services at default aside from the ones mentioned in this forum
and do not have to start anything manually once started

Vista Rules!!

 

[Iceflame012]

This is my first time posting and I'm not really that knowledgeable when it comes to computers. My current startup time was 256 seconds and I have cut it down to about 150. I noticed in a previous post that that startup programs affected the startup time. I was wondering if you guys could please help me in sorting out which startup programs I needed and which ones just took up space.

My programs: (Here are the links for I am unable to show them as pics on this forum).

http://www.2shared.com/file/3695206/1c7025bf/Startup_Programs_1.html

http://www.2shared.com/file/3695208/fbc808b8/Startup_Programs_2.html


http://www.2shared.com/file/3695390/251351f4/reboot_time.html

 

[jblim1980]

have left all windows services at default aside from the ones mentioned in this forum
and do not have to start anything manually once started

Vista Rules!!




what command do i used for this? where can i find the reboot?

 

[Mr GRiM]

This is the link for the guide lines on how to boost performance follow each one and you will get a huge boost and some cool extras
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81176-speed-up-performance-vista.html

And here is the link to check your reboot speed
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/151819-boot-up-time.html

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Vista Rules!!
What command do i used for this? where can i find the reboot?

Hello!

You can find it here ...

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/151819-boot-up-time.html

You can also use this to post 'shots' here at Vista forums ...

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/148532-how-use-snipping-tool-vista.html?ltr=H


Later Ted

 

[Mr GRiM]

Another way of uploading your pics is download this handy sidebar gadget called Gshot

http://download.softpedia.ro/dl/386...52d83/100086591/software/WIDGETS/gshot.gadget

 

[SIW2]

Hi Iceflame,

Wow you have a lot of things coming at startup. You can safely take them all out except the operating system, your firewall, Windows Defender and your antivirus ( I guess this is the Symantec stuff ). Then check your startup time - you might be surprised.

You can create shortcuts for your applications either in the quick launch bar ( to access them quickly ) OR on your desktop OR in your start menu ( click start > customise and you can change the number of recent programs to display to 0 - you will have a nice big space to put shortcuts in).

Programs you don't need that often don't need a separate shortcut created as they can be accessed from start >all programs. Try not to have several shortcuts for each program, as they all have to be loaded at startup too.

Things like acrobat reader should spring into action when you open a pdf document, it doesn't need to be started already. If you need Microsoft Word and Office and Quickbook etc. to be up and running , then add them back in, but I think you will prefer to start them as and when you need them.

SIW2

 

[FiReStOrM]

Hello Everyone
heres my Boot time =]

i thought it took longer then that but i guess i was wrong lol

 

[jblim1980]

Hello!

You can find it here ...

Boot Up Time

You can also use this to post 'shots' here at Vista forums ...

How to use the Snipping Tool in Vista

thanks !!!

 

[Iceflame012]

Hi Iceflame,

Wow you have a lot of things coming at startup. You can safely take them all out except the operating system, your firewall, Windows Defender and your antivirus ( I guess this is the Symantec stuff ). Then check your startup time - you might be surprised.

You can create shortcuts for your applications either in the quick launch bar ( to access them quickly ) OR on your desktop OR in your start menu ( click start > customise and you can change the number of recent programs to display to 0 - you will have a nice big space to put shortcuts in).

Programs you don't need that often don't need a separate shortcut created as they can be accessed from start >all programs. Try not to have several shortcuts for each program, as they all have to be loaded at startup too.

Things like acrobat reader should spring into action when you open a pdf document, it doesn't need to be started already. If you need Microsoft Word and Office and Quickbook etc. to be up and running , then add them back in, but I think you will prefer to start them as and when you need them.

SIW2

Thanks a lot

Should I cancel any other startup programs? If you have time, can you please list them by name.

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

I'm not sure what those 3 Intel entries are - you can find out by hovering your mouse pointer over them - i have Intel drivers for my motherboard, but they are already installed and don't show in msconfig. Try taking them out and you'll probably find you don't need them in startup either.

After that, it's housekeeping time. You can delete stuff you don't need like the sample pictures , media and videos you'll find if you check the folders of the same name. If you have an LCD screen you don't need a screensaver so you can set that to none - a screensaver is just another program that has to be loaded up.
Then do a disk cleanup - check the tutorials as to how you can regain space from Hibernation and by deleting all system restore points except the last one. Run diskcleaner then Defrag - suggest the auslogics defrag., free from www.auslogics.com. I also like ccleaner - get the free slim version at
http://www.ccleaner.com/download/builds/downloading-slim
and let him attach to your recycle bin ( he doesn't need a shortcut - right click the recycle bin and there he is ).

Have Fun

SIW2

 

[Kessen]

Here is mine.

 

[SIW2]

That is incredibly fast! What system are you using and how have you set it up? Let us know - we may learn something.

SIW2

 

[johngalt]

Hi,

I'm not sure what those 3 Intel entries are - you can find out by hovering your mouse pointer over them - i have Intel drivers for my motherboard, but they are already installed and don't show in msconfig. Try taking them out and you'll probably find you don't need them in startup either.

After that, it's housekeeping time. You can delete stuff you don't need like the sample pictures , media and videos you'll find if you check the folders of the same name. If you have an LCD screen you don't need a screensaver so you can set that to none - a screensaver is just another program that has to be loaded up.
Then do a disk cleanup - check the tutorials as to how you can regain space from Hibernation and by deleting all system restore points except the last one. Run diskcleaner then Defrag - suggest the auslogics defrag., free from www.auslogics.com. I also like ccleaner - get the free slim version at
CCleaner - Downloading Slim...
and let him attach to your recycle bin ( he doesn't need a shortcut - right click the recycle bin and there he is ).

Have Fun

SIW2

Those are probably Intel NIC related software....