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Measuring PC boot-up time by component - and tweaking it with Soluto

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IainB:
I have been trialling some new PC performance monitoring software that I stumbled across - Soluto Beta
It's free at present, and may stay that way.

But wow! I am truly impressed by Soluto. Nice job.    :up:    :up:    :up:
As a one-time software programmer and developer, I am always on the lookout for new/specialised software, and enjoy trialling/testing it. I have become skeptical about it though, as the majority is kinda mediocre.
I started using Soluto on 2010-06-07. On my first re-boot, the savings on boot-up were a little over 2 minutes off my 6-minute boot-up time. After some more tweaking after that, and then a huge Windows Update today,  the time has gone back up to 6:03 minutes, so there's still more tweaking required, methinks. Soluto lets you make decisions as to whether to postpone startup of components until after boot ("Delay") or temporarily suspend them from startup ("Pause") or leave them "IN Boot". "No brainers" are recommended for your special attention to do something about. The concept is rather clever, using crowdsourcing feedback for data on the components and providing a rather nifty dynamically interactive timeline which shows the system changes you made before and after using Soluto, so you can see how your boot-up time has varied over time and what the possible causes of variation were. There is also a rather nifty dynamically interactive component chart, with components arranged in startup time order.

Because of this relatively scientific approach, there's no more guesswork in identifying the boot-up criminals, and because Soluto times your boot-up by component I now know that (for example):

* ZoneAlarm's True Vector Internet Monitor takes a whopping 46 seconds in boot-up.
* Windows' System takes 62 seconds.
* MS Anti-malware takes 53 seconds.
* Clipboard Help and Spell takes 9 seconds.
* FARR takes 7 secondsI am not sure whether I shall keep Soluto longer term - it depends on how useful it is after a longer period of use - but the omens for keeping it are pretty positive so far.

Hoping this this might be of use/help to somebody.

cranioscopical:
Thanks for the pointer

IainB:
I have updated my post above with some more info. that you might not have not seen yet.

hpearce:
I tried that but quite frankly, it told me nothing that I already didn't know

IainB:
@hpearce: What tool did you use to measure your component boot-up times? I had not previously been able to do that - so Soluto at least told me something that I did not know before - i.e., all the precise boot-up times statistics by components.

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