View Full Version : Enable Boot Defrag
Dehcbad25
July 5th, 2003, 03:25 AM
WindowsXP includes a neat little feature called boot defrag which helps speed up the startup process, but for some reason it's not always enabled by default. Of course this can be easily turned on with a simple registry hack.
Go to Start, then Run and from there type Regedit and press the ok button. Follow this path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> Dfrg -> BootOptimizeFunction. Look for the "Enable" string and if the value is Y, boot defrag is enabled. If the value is not Y, change it to Y, close and reboot.
If it wasn't enabled before, you should notice your system boots much quicker now. Please keep in mind, only some computers do not have this feature enabled by default.
Thor
July 5th, 2003, 21:25 PM
Is there really any measurable increase with this reg fix?
lynchknot
July 5th, 2003, 23:42 PM
Is this what Bootvis does?
Conan
July 6th, 2003, 00:44 AM
I am skeptical about this tweak without installing a defragmenter which is actually capable of "boot defrag".
Dehcbad25
July 6th, 2003, 07:47 AM
well, my systems had them on by default.
Conan and Thor, did you check to see if it was on or off?? YOu might have it on already, even if you don't believe in it.
All the tips I posted I had tried them myself, exept for the RAM one
Conan
July 6th, 2003, 08:16 AM
Mine was on, but I do have 2 defrag programs that I use to Boot Defrag or Offline Defrag.
SupaStar
July 6th, 2003, 09:36 AM
Originally posted by lynchknot
Is this what Bootvis does?
Nope...bootvis provides a way to see the order and time taken to boot different parts of windows.
Thor
July 6th, 2003, 14:31 PM
Miine was on already.
cash_site
July 7th, 2003, 05:27 AM
Yep, mine was on too. Dehc, you should make a website dedicated to Tips and Tricks, or make your own version of TweakXp.
Conan
July 7th, 2003, 10:52 AM
Originally posted by cash_site
Yep, mine was on too. Dehc, you should make a website dedicated to Tips and Tricks, or make your own version of TweakXp.
Tweak XP can't even set the proper Level 2 Cache of my P4. When I found out about this I stopped using this program!
Dehcbad25
July 7th, 2003, 23:53 PM
Ohh, no. Don't give me too much credit. I can't do programming. Gosh, I even fight with my Linux Machine :p
Just stuff I come across, plus I had so much junk to which I had been subscribed :p, and I don't even read 1/10 of it. If I did I could be a guru, but still I woun't be able to program.
I even have problems all the time with the codecs in my PC. They drive me nutz :D
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