Slow booting up / getting to your desktop? Read this

[Deleted User]

Hello,

I wanted to share an interesting article here regarding a piece of software called Soluto.

Soluto bills itself as an "Anti-Frustration Software", and it's not hard to see why—it tracks all the applications in your system boot process, and tells you exactly which ones are slowing you down.

Once you've installed the software and rebooted your PC, Soluto springs into action, tracking every single process that runs during the boot process, and then allows you to easily drill down into the list of processes to see exact times for each one. To make it easier for the layman to understand what processes can be removed, the applications are grouped into "No-brainer" or "Potentially removable" groups.

Definitely worth a play around with if you're struggling to figure out why it's taking so long to get to your desktop.

[Deleted User]

Bump for anyone else who may find this useful

weegie.geek

Ah, interesting. There was a MS tool for doing this, but it's pretty old now, and doesn't look nearly as swish.

Beast

I was about to say - MS Bootvis wasn't half as user friendly as this, good find

Got my boot time down from 39 seconds to 35 seconds

[Deleted User]

Last bump for anyone else who may find this useful

dogmaryxx

Do I need to retain Soluto after removing processes or are changes now permanent?

[Deleted User]

dogmaryxx wrote: »

Do I need to retain Soluto after removing processes or are changes now permanent?

Not sure I understand what you mean by "removing processes"?

dogmaryxx

Removed all No-brainers.

dogmaryxx

You need to keep Soluto installed so any slight benefit will be negated by Soluto boot load time.

May be useful for anyone with excessive boot time, but as I only boot once or twice a day it's just another unneeded resource hog. Still in Beta so worth watching.

Surprised so few have tested/commented.

[Deleted User]

dogmaryxx wrote: »

You need to keep Soluto installed

This isn't true. You can install Soluto, find out which software may be slowing your boot time down, uninstall that and also uninstall Soluto itself, resulting in improved boot times.

dogmaryxx

Deleted_User wrote: »

This isn't true. You can install Soluto, find out which software may be slowing your boot time down, uninstall that and also uninstall Soluto itself, resulting in improved boot times.

Then reinstall Soluto and you will find your back where you started unless your talking about removing software other than by using Soluto programme.

Believe me I tried it.