This was a very interesting exercise. From the time I submitted the
reply to the time I pick-up my e-mail to use the link I submitted, the
link stopped working. Then today I checked my link again and now I get
the same page you submitted Ian. Neat! Anyway, right now I searched for
bootvis.exe and found this place: http://www.filemirrors.com. Once on
the site do a search for the program by name. It showed many places to
download bootvis.exe. My file size is 630k. Use are your own risk.

I found instruction on the way I use it here:
http://www.xptuneup.com/xptuneup_bootvis.htm

Hope these links work until this get posted.  :-)

I don't remember which place I read about bootvis.exe. It was ether
Woody's or PC World.

Aloha.


Ian wrote:

>David, according to the information onsite, the bootvis tool is no longer available.
>
>Also, I'm not sure how you'd use it to speed up a machine's booting.  I quote from the page you linked to:
>
><snip>
>About Bootvis.exe
>Bootvis.exe is a performance tracing and visualization tool that Microsoft designed to help PC system designers and software developers identify performance issues for boot/resume timing while developing new PC products or supporting software.
>
>Please note that Bootvis.exe is not a tool that will improve boot/resume performance for end users. Contrary to some published reports, Bootvis.exe cannot reduce or alter a system's boot or resume performance. The boot optimization routines invoked by Bootvis.exe are built into Windows XP. These routines run automatically at pre-determined times as part of the normal operation of the operating system......................
>
>............The Bootvis.exe tool is no longer available from this site
>
>....
>
>

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