I wanted to post up a few things I found around the net on this program. I couldn’t find a lot of information about it, so this is the best I could come up with on a “How-To” guide using this little program. Essentially, this is a computer boot manager optimization program, that goes out and cleans up processes that the computer has to do in order to boot faster. This was an old Microsoft tool, but they have since discontinued support on it, and have released this disclaimer here Although I am sure if you know what your doing, there isn’t anything harmful that can come by experimenting with it, and I have never had any problems using it over the last year. You can download it from here

1) Analyzing your system: For optimizing the boot sequence of Windows XP, BOOTVIS must analyze the boot sequence. In order to do so, a reboot is needed!

2) Close all running applications. Next we select from the menu “File” – “New” – “Next Boot + Drivers Trace” You can see here that you are not only limited to optimizing the regular boot sequence, but also the Standby or Hibernate sequence.

3) After clicking the desired option (I started with “Next Boot + Drivers Trace”) a dialog will ask you how many times BOOTVIS should repeat analyzing the boot sequence. 1 repetition will work.

4) Click “OK” to continue – Now a window will appear, showing a count down. Once this reaches zero, Windows will reboot.

5) Windows XP will now reboot. When windows restarts, if needed, login as fast as possible as this might give a slightly distorted graph – it does not have any influence on the optimalisation though!

6) BOOTVIS will automatically restart after Windows complete the boot sequence. Be patient, it will take a few seconds before BOOTVIS appears, showing a graph which indicate the timings. The section (you might need to scroll down) called “Driver Delay” shows you the significant delays caused by drivers being loaded and initialized.

7) Now select from the menu “Trace” the option “Optimize System”

8 ) BOOTVIS will now optimize the initialization of the drivers (some aren’t even needed for your hardware setup) and reboot again.

**After completing this, a reboot will occur again. After reboot has been complete, it will take a while – could be several minutes – for BOOTVIS to complete the optimalisation. After this, BOOTVIS is done and your system is optimized. Tip: after installing new drivers, it might be useful to run BOOTVIS again.

~Special thanks to WeetHet.nl for the posted information