Defragging the Windows XP Boot Process

So aparently there is another "defragger" in XP, meant to improve boot times.

check
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction

Enable should be Equal to Y, check OptimizeComplete and OptimizeError to see if it worked last time, rebooting will

To initiate it manually
Start->Run: rundll32 advapi32 ProcessIdleTasks

http://www.tutorials-win.com/MaintainXP/DFRG-BootOptimizeFunction/


Update:

ok, While this was a useful trick, PerfectDisk8 http://www.raxco.com/products/PerfectDisk2k/ is really a killer application and made things MUCH faster on my Laptop.

A hint to this was the following (susposedly it would do it itself, I found it was easier in smaller chunks of work)

1. Remove Current Paging and Hibernation files (Control Panel/System and Control Panel/Power)
2. do an Offline defrag of just the system areas
3. Do an on-line defrag of the disk
4. re-establish your paging and hibernation files
5. do an offline defrag
6. do an online defrag

Was this overkill, maybe. Am I happy, you BET