Another Bootvis problem

Hi,
I formatted and reinstalled XP Home to cure age promoted slow start ups. (Windows, not mine!) All was fine, loaded all the required updates, and finished with a boot up time of about 40 secs according to Bootvis.
I ran Bootvis to optimize booting, and all appeared to run correctly except that the next boot took well over a minute!
I ran Bootvis again, got graphs full of red lines and 'Warning - disk write caching disabled' and the boot time is now around 1 min 30 secs!

In device manager the enable caching box is ticked, and anyway there appears to be no way to change this if it wasn't.

Has anybody any ideas for a rescue?

Roger

 

Hi

I think you should read carefully the official Microsoft explanation on Bootvis

As far as I know Microsoft removed the tool from their site because of this. It is available on re-directed links but the fact it was removed by Microsoft makes me feel it was not been used correctly and therefore problems.
HTH

 

Hi miniB,

You are absolutely right, I should have it before I tried to improve my boot time. It went from 40 secs to 2 minutes!!

Roger