BootVis

[sstein]

Hi,

Anyone remember the windows software BootVis, it gave you a breakdown of your boot into windows and you could find out which was taking the most time etc. It seems it's no longer available via the MS website. Anyone know any alternatives which do the same thing?? Would also like some software that shows which folders are using up the most HD space????

Cheers

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Stuart

[buggalugs]

SpaceMonger or Treesize for the disk space thing, as for startup performance I think a defrag, and disable any unneeded serices & startup items is the best you can do.

[sstein]

I have defrag'd the hard disc, stopped most of the services running but it still takes about 1m 40s for it to boot into XP!

I think it's mostly Norton that is slowing it down.

Services running at startup,

Automatic LiveUpdate Schedular - Norton
Automatic Updates
Com+ Event System
DCOM Service Process Manager
DHCP Client - Turn this off and my internet stops working
DNS Client - Turn this off and my internet stops working
Event Log
Plug n Play
PLM Driver HPZ12 - Protects recovery partition
Remote Access Connection Mgr - Turn this off and my internet stops working
RPC
Norton Antivirus
Symantec Core - Norton
Symantec Event Manager - Norton
Symantec Network Drivers Service - Norton
Symantec Network Proxy - Norton
Symantec Settings Manager - Norton
Symantec SPBBCSvc - Norton
System Event Notification
System Restore
Telephony - Cant disable this
Windows Audio
Windows Management Instrumentation

Nothing in startup.

I'll give those storage size programs you mentioned a go, I'm only after this after discovering that Norton had a folder with 600+MB of temp files it never cleaned up!

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Stuart

[tank slapper]

Norton is a resource hog. Personally I would bin it and use AVG for anti-virus.

[VictorMeldrew]

SequoiaView is the best thing for seeing where you disk space has gone. Extremely useful.

[andygo]

If you pm me I have a zipped up copy that should work.

Andy

[sstein]

Thanks Andy

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Stuart

[Hooli]

bin norton. i had to install it in my previous job & it tripled boot up times on average.