Need help reducing boot time

mp260767

mp260767

mp260767

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run bootvis to get an idea of my system boot time, but need some help sorting out why its taking so long.

bootvis screenshot :



system is running xp home +sp3, c2d6300, 4gb memory, samsung 250Gb sata drive, seagate 320gb sata drive, samsung dvd-rw, x1950pro gfx.



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Lol I need to ask this as well. :p Ran a bootvis and want some advice on how to speed things up.

All I can suggest is have you made sure you've only got the basics loading up? And the latest drivers for your disks might help. :)

Nice to see even people with Core2Duo 6300s and 4Gb of RAM are having problems with their boot times. :cool:

Btw why have 4Gb of RAM? Upgrading to Vista soon or are you OK with XP only seeing 3.5Gb? :)

Edit: mrxsmb seems to be browser server related. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/regentry/31867.mspx?mfr=true. Might be worth checking out TheElderGeek.com to fine tune your services a bit. :)
 
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i'm ok with windows seeing 3.5gb.

as for services its down to 18 processes at startup which i'm sort of happy with.

problem with bootvis it the gaps it shows at the start before explorer and the gaps between the 2 nod32 processes, which seems to coincide with the mrxsmb job.

tried looking up a few things but not really found anything telling me what im doing wrong :(.
 
already did that before i posted and tried everything without much change.

after digging about i found some references to the WORKSTATION service, which on my system was set to automatic.

disabled it and now everything runs in line with only the gap at the start to the point where explorer.exe kicks in and the mrxsmb entry that was taking seconds has merged in with everything else and the process creates are complete within 30 seconds :).

blackviper indicates that workstation should be left as auto, so will keep an eye on it but so far everything is working fine.

will carry on looking around to see if i can come up with any other useful info tho.
 
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this is what i dont like about Vista, 70 processes running after start up, promptly reduced to about 60. the Ituneshelper.exe and ipodhelper.exe get on my nerves as there both set to not auto load yet they do and i dont even have an Ipod :(

Mostly use hibernate though which does work quite nicely.
 
<De@thW!sh> said:
this is what i dont like about Vista, 70 processes running after start up, promptly reduced to about 60. the Ituneshelper.exe and ipodhelper.exe get on my nerves as there both set to not auto load yet they do and i dont even have an Ipod :(

Mostly use hibernate though which does work quite nicely.
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End processes then obliterate the EXE's !
 
mp260767 said:
already did that before i posted and tried everything without much change.

after digging about i found some references to the WORKSTATION service, which on my system was set to automatic.

disabled it and now everything runs in line with only the gap at the start to the point where explorer.exe kicks in and the mrxsmb entry that was taking seconds has merged in with everything else and the process creates are complete within 30 seconds :).

blackviper indicates that workstation should be left as auto, so will keep an eye on it but so far everything is working fine.

will carry on looking around to see if i can come up with any other useful info tho.
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I don't even have Workstation service on my PC. Are you on Vista?
 
MarcLister said:
Hmm I wonder why you have the Workstation service and I don't. I probably removed it from XP using nLite. :)
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meh thats cheating :D

yeah fair chance you removed it as part of you're build as my system is still working fine without it started.

had a look at nlite before but never quite figured it out :(, might have to have another go at it for use in my next re install.
 
Yes it is. :p

nLite is quite easy to get to grips with. :) Add me to MSN sometime if you want and I'll run you through it. Email me first on my MSN address so I know who you are. :)
 
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