How to optimize Win 7 start up

I recently installed Winbootinfo and it showed 30 seconds for the boot time, which isn't bad considering many unwanted programs had been disabled in msconfig by myself. But is there a way to shave another couple of seconds off the clock? Is there software that can automatically optimize boot time like the old bootvis? And should I disable "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARE MicrosoftDfrgBootOptimizeFunction." if I use SSD?

 

I would recommend using ccleaner to disable start up programs.

Also, you can go through your services and set some of the unneeded ones to delayed startup.

 

AFA defrag it should be disabled with an SSD - this guide may be of help
The SSD Optimization Guide - The SSD Review . I enclose a registry pic from my machine

 

I am not sure that a software which automates the optimization is such a good idea. Most likely this kind of sofware would disable something that you would not like to have disabled.

I personally use 'Startup Delayer'. This is a free software that allows to delay some startup processes (which are not really needed immediately after booting) so that you can start using the notebook while these processes are still getting loaded. E.g. my Antivirus was causing quite a long boot time so I did put one process of the Antivirus Software into the Delayed Processes Applications and this did speed up boot time by 10 seconds.

 

So does anyone have a link to a useful guide for disabling services in Win 7? I have disabled the basic ones like indexing and so on, but I am sure there are a few more that could be disabled too, that I don't know of.

 

This is what your after

Black Viper

 

30 seconds is a fine boot time.

It's not even enough time to get a cup of coffee.

Stop obsessing over meaningless seconds.

 

Do you guys with SSD have system restore enabled or disabled? I find it quite handy sometimes to restore a file, but not sure how much performance hit I am getting from enabling it.

 

^^^^^^^I personally never use it, I just do regular monthly, full image backups to an external HDD and incremental to a USB stick. I don't believe there would be a noticable performance difference, the point by disabling this on the SSD is to limit writes and keep a decent amout of free space on the SSD (From what I read you want at least 25% free)

 

Here is my startup list with things listed as enabled and disabled. Its pulled from CCleaner 3.12.

My HP G72 laptop (i3, 8 Gb ram, 500 Gb disk) cold boots to the win7 login screen in less than 20 seconds. Without the seti entries cold boot time is approx 15 seconds. There are only 4 sidebar gadgets running none of which are flash or silverlight based. I have no shared drives set to automount.

The laptop bios is set for fast memory check and to boot directly from the hdd without ever looking for the cd/dvd or a floppy.

The ONLY thing I've ever defragged is the page file. Yes, even with 8 Gb I run a system page file because Creative Suite 5.5 is much happier with both a system page file and it's own internal image cache/page file.

Yes HKCU:Run Sidebar C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe /autoRun
Yes HKLM:Run VirtualCloneDrive "C:\Program Files (x86)\Elaborate Bytes\VirtualCloneDrive\VCDDaemon.exe" /s
Yes HKLM:Run boincmgr "C:\Program Files (x86)\BOINC\boincmgr.exe" /a /s
Yes HKLM:Run boinctray "C:\Program Files (x86)\BOINC\boinctray.exe"
Yes Startup Common NDAS Device Management.lnk C:\Program Files\NDAS\System\ndasmgmt.exe
Yes Startup User NetworkIndicator.lnk C:\Program Files (x86)\NetworkIndicator\NetworkIndicator.exe
No HKCU:Run OfficeSyncProcess "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\MSOSYNC.EXE"
No HKLM:Run APSDaemon "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support\APSDaemon.exe"
No HKLM:Run HotKeysCmds C:\Windows\system32\hkcmd.exe
No HKLM:Run IAStorIcon C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology\IAStorIcon.exe
No HKLM:Run IgfxTray C:\Windows\system32\igfxtray.exe
No HKLM:Run Persistence C:\Windows\system32\igfxpers.exe
No HKLM:Run QuickTime Task "C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTTask.exe" -atboottime
No HKLM:Run RTHDVCPL C:\Program Files\Realtek\Audio\HDA\RAVCpl64.exe -s
No HKLM:Run WordWeb "C:\Program Files (x86)\WordWeb\wweb32.exe" -startup

 

Good one! Thank you.

 

from what i have read some with Intel SSD`s see an improvement but others with non Intel drives didn't see any benefit to having system restore off

i have system restore on as i find it useful and dont have an intel SSD

 

the best way is to just minimize your reboot frequency. You gain nothing in a reboot(comparing with say resume from sleep/hibernation).

For people with 10s startup, they still lose 9s to my resume from sleep, each time.

Of course, we may still need to reboot once a month or so due to windows update but 20-30s amortized to 30 days is nothing.

 

I oftenly hear advices from you which I don't agree, did you notice that?
For example if someone uses Skype then you can notice that it always increases RAM usage in time. It may use only 30MB after startup but then increase 3-5 times in a day or 2 just like that even if you don't use it. Some people who likes to talk about conspiracy or about spying software even say that it shows that Skype spies everyone but I personally don't care why. All I know is that it is useful to to a reboot because it reduces usage of RAM by some programs or services. And even if you have 16GB of RAM still it is good to reboot.

Even more if you have SSD! Many people including me advice to shut off hibernation.

Here I attached zip file.