optimizing bootup times?

Devrij · 19 Feb 2010 at 14:20

I went from 77 seconds to 202 seconds to boot since I've had my current build, and besides shaving off unneeded processes/apps from the startup in msconfig, what else can I do to reduce those times? Cheers!

domthecondom · 19 Feb 2010 at 14:30

buy and SSD

What unneeded processe and apps have you shaved off if I can ask?

Destination · 19 Feb 2010 at 15:16

What antivirus are you using?

Cosimo · 19 Feb 2010 at 15:24

What is your OS and how long have you been running your installation?

Devrij · 19 Feb 2010 at 23:39

Sorry for delay, I'm running win7 ultimate which has been on for about 5 or 6 months. I'm using avast V5, and I just stopped powerISO and some other update checkers for software I don't really use from starting up. Currently I have on startup: avast, rocketdock, rainmeter, ultramon, CCC, some sticky notes, and a bunch of stuff I couldn't recognise and didn't want to disable in case it did something important lol. I run Ccleaner regularly to clean out dead reg entries.

pieplough · 20 Feb 2010 at 00:16

Devrij said:
Sorry for delay, I'm running win7 ultimate which has been on for about 5 or 6 months. I'm using avast V5, and I just stopped powerISO and some other update checkers for software I don't really use from starting up. Currently I have on startup: avast, rocketdock, rainmeter, ultramon, CCC, some sticky notes, and a bunch of stuff I couldn't recognise and didn't want to disable in case it did something important lol. I run Ccleaner regularly to clean out dead reg entries.

Try using this guide on black viper.

http://www.blackviper.com/Windows_7/supertweaks.htm

Shows you some things you can disable, i didnt disable windows recovery. Plus step 8 shows you windows services you can disable. Dont panic though, it has 3 levels of things to disable from "safe" to "tweaked" and "bare bones". I usualy just do the safe settings.

I havent timed my startups but it "feels" quicker after i used these tweaks. If you do use them would be interesting to see if it makes a difference to your time. Also i stopped using rocket dock as i felt it really slowed down my startup.

Devrij · 20 Feb 2010 at 00:28

pieplough said:
Try using this guide on black viper.

http://www.blackviper.com/Windows_7/supertweaks.htm

Shows you some things you can disable, i didnt disable windows recovery. Plus step 8 shows you windows services you can disable. Dont panic though, it has 3 levels of things to disable from "safe" to "tweaked" and "bare bones". I usualy just do the safe settings.

I havent timed my startups but it "feels" quicker after i used these tweaks. If you do use them would be interesting to see if it makes a difference to your time. Also i stopped using rocket dock as i felt it really slowed down my startup.

I'll post up times with various bits and bobs disabled (ie rocketdock) and see how low I can get it tomorrow.