Decreasing Boot Time




Microsoft has made available a program to analyze and decrease the time it takes to boot to WindowsXP

The program is called BootVis
Uncompress the file.

Run BOOTVIS.EXE

For a starting point, run Trace / Next Boot + Driver Delays
This will reboot your computer and provide a benchmark

After the reboot, BootVis will take a minute or two to show graphs of your system startup.

Note how much time it takes for your system to load (click on the red vertical line)

Then run Trace / Optimize System

Re-Run the Next Boot + Drive Delays

Note how much the time has decreased
Mine went from approximately 39 to 30 seconds.

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Enable / Disable the Task Manager




Start Regedit
 
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System


 
Create the Dword value DisableTaskMgr
Give it a value of 0 to enable it
Give it a value of 1 to disable it

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