Soluto

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I've installed soluto on my laptop to see what it comes up with for improving boot time. I've cut out a few things though it doesn't really seem to have made any difference. *correction, it has made a difference actually. Anyway, it tells me that microsoft security essentials accounts for a large chunk of boot time. If I get rid of it, is there anything I can replace it with which would significantly reduce the boot speed? Like, AVG, or would that slow it down in a similar way?

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Well I uninstalled and reinstalled soluto and now MSE shows me 13 seconds and 22% of my boot instead of 29 seconds. I've no idea why it's suddenly so different. In between though I uninstalled MSE and tried avast but the cost of boot time was ridiculous, 50% of boot and took ages. So I got rid of that. Is there any good AV that would cost less than 13 seconds boot time? Currently, using restart-time.vbs, my reboot time is 59 seconds.

Also, in msconfig, under the Services tab, if I untick anything from there, does that remove them from the boot process or only stuff in the Startup tab?
 
Is 29 seconds really that that much of an issue for anti virus, something that's considered essential?
 
Is 29 seconds really that that much of an issue for anti virus, something that's considered essential?

Nope, not really, I can live with 59 seconds as I don't use the laptop that much. I'm just tinkering and curious if I can shave more off.:p
 
Do people still cold boot? I suspend my machine most of the time and only reboot when Windows update annoys me enough to get around to it.
 
Do people still cold boot? I suspend my machine most of the time and only reboot when Windows update annoys me enough to get around to it.


My desktop doesn't shutdown, it's set to sleep on the power button. But my laptop is always shutdown and so turns on from a cold boot. And there's often things going on which require a reboot as well.
 
Have you never installed new apps that require a reboot? Have you never uninstalled apps that need a reboot to remove remaining files? :rolleyes:

I'm not being funny, but on Windows 7, I haven't had that in, well I can't remember how long. Probably since I started using Win 7 and most likely a large chunk of Vista too.
 
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