Nice little XP tweaking Proggy called "TuneXP"

[Shagga]

This is getting quite a bit of good press. Thought you all might like a look at this.

 

[Mem]

Thx Shagga, more info & feedback here at DriverHeaven forum.

 

[Abhi]

nice..

 

[Shagga]

Originally posted by: Mem
Thx Shagga, more info & feedback here at DriverHeaven forum.

Your welcome. Okay I have tried it and...... wow it actually works. Shut down and Start up have increased in speed, gunna mess about with it a little more. looks promising.

 

[CrystalBay]

Carefull with those internet settings, I spent a whole ten minutes troubleshooting (whew..lol..) after releasing settings...

good lil proggy...

 

[sxr7171]

I don't know... I tried it and I think bootvis does a much better job of improving boot times.


EDIT: Just tested both and Bootvis kicks the crap out this program in terms of boot speed. The other tweaks might be useful, but some people on the message boards have found a few problems or errors. Anyway, I'm thankful that the program does improve shut down time.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

cool, reduced my shutdown times from 35 seconds to 12 seconds.

 

[screw3d]

Originally posted by: sxr7171
I don't know... I tried it and I think bootvis does a much better job of improving boot times.


EDIT: Just tested both and Bootvis kicks the crap out this program in terms of boot speed. The other tweaks might be useful, but some people on the message boards have found a few problems or errors. Anyway, I'm thankful that the program does improve shut down time.

It's been documented by MS that BootVis supposedly does NOTHING to your boot times.

I tried TuneXP and I am pleasantly surprised at the improvement of my boot time.. I usually determine that from the scrolling bar during startup.. and now it takes just two "scrolls" (down from probably 10 or more)! :Q

 

[sxr7171]

^^^ I tried both twice after installing Tune XP, and they is no doubt that Bootvis definitely yields much faster boot times than Tune XP. Have you compared both?

Btw this site has a few measurements to show for before and after. The improvements may not seem like much but my system responds in much less time than it used to. Using the Tune XP boot optimization after using bootvis made my system take much longer to become responsive.

Also if you've actually used bootvis before it even has a function called optimize system and it tells you after reboot that is rearranging files on your hard drive for faster boot up. Perhaps you should actually try it before dismissing it.


The reason why MS had to change their story was that it used to cause problems with systems using hyperthreading. There has since been a kernal patch to fix that. The other thing was that novice users were messing up their systems with it and it was costing them money to provide support on those issues. However if you just go and select the optimize system function you will be fine.

Other things that may affect my results: I try to have the absolute minimum number of services run on my system. Over half of them are useless for the average user and are disabled on my system, also I carefully control my startup items so I have a minimum number things starting up upon boot. Another possible factor - I have Diskeeper 8 on my machine and bootvis invokes Diskeeper Pro instead of the built in defrag to do the rearrangement work. Tune XP invokes the built in defrag tool. I really doubt this makes a big difference either way.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

just a FYI from my experience, the ultra fast boot didn't help much at all. maybe an decrease of 0-2 seconds of boot time. If i had it to do over again, I would have skipped this tweak from TuneXP

 

[RVN]

IMO, unnecessary ...simply a gui for the same registry tweaks and regular tuning-up that one should already employ.

Bootvis simply allows you to initiate and track the built-in XP optimizers (prefetch and disk organization) that already exist. The ability to do this when you want is important, particularly if you periodically clear out your prefetch and layout.ini file. Bootvis is good.

 

[0roo0roo]

well, some people don't like playing with registry though.

 

[0roo0roo]

IO PAGE LOCK LIMIT Recommended for everyone
This tweak alters the size of the IO paging area in memory. The larger RAM amount you have, the higher a limit
you can set. Improves general performance, especially when loading larger applications.

dont quite get this setting, if i have 1gb, do i set it to 512+? it doesn't lock off that much ram for normal use right? i have no idea.

 

[Kinesis]

....here is my thing on Bootup times....who gives a turkey!

I mean seriously, boot up time means very little in overall system performance. I could care less if my system took 2 mins or 30 seconds to boot....unless I was doing numerous installs/patches that required several reboots. I run my system 24/7 with power down settings so I don't have to turn it on each time I want to use it.

Just my opinion! ................... Let the egg throwing begin!

 

[0roo0roo]

well yea, but its nice. my boot doesn't even allow the scroll bar to go across once now

on older systems with long ass bootitmes it might be better

 

[hudster]

well Kinesis, maybe you're not running your computer in your car...yeah, on my home computer, I couldn't care less, but in my car, it's very convenient to have the computer boot up in the shortest time possible...

Originally posted by: Kinesis
....here is my thing on Bootup times....who gives a turkey!

I mean seriously, boot up time means very little in overall system performance. I could care less if my system took 2 mins or 30 seconds to boot....unless I was doing numerous installs/patches that required several reboots. I run my system 24/7 with power down settings so I don't have to turn it on each time I want to use it.

Just my opinion! ................... Let the egg throwing begin!

 

[Kinesis]

Originally posted by: hudster
well Kinesis, maybe you're not running your computer in your car...yeah, on my home computer, I couldn't care less, but in my car, it's very convenient to have the computer boot up in the shortest time possible...

Originally posted by: Kinesis
....here is my thing on Bootup times....who gives a turkey!

I mean seriously, boot up time means very little in overall system performance. I could care less if my system took 2 mins or 30 seconds to boot....unless I was doing numerous installs/patches that required several reboots. I run my system 24/7 with power down settings so I don't have to turn it on each time I want to use it.

Just my opinion! ................... Let the egg throwing begin!

Ummm................what?

 

[screw3d]

This is a seriously good piece of software.. updated to v1.5 bump.

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: hudster
well Kinesis, maybe you're not running your computer in your car...yeah, on my home computer, I couldn't care less, but in my car, it's very convenient to have the computer boot up in the shortest time possible...


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Originally posted by: Kinesis
....here is my thing on Bootup times....who gives a turkey!

I mean seriously, boot up time means very little in overall system performance. I could care less if my system took 2 mins or 30 seconds to boot....unless I was doing numerous installs/patches that required several reboots. I run my system 24/7 with power down settings so I don't have to turn it on each time I want to use it.

Just my opinion! ................... Let the egg throwing begin!

[/quote]

I've got two words for you:

Opus
Standby

System in my car resumes from standby in about 2 seconds.


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