Bootvis question

[Elroy Jetson]

First of all Happy New Year (my first post this year!)

I just ran Bootvis to improve my boot time, and I noticed that under Disk I/O I had a message "Warning! Disc write caching is disabled". Also, an optimization comes up with a timeout after reboot. Do those two things go hand-in-hand?

How do I enable disc write caching, what is it for, and do I need it?

Thanks in advance, EJ

 

[NetRyder]

Right click My Computer.
Properties>Hardware>Device Manager

Under Disk Drives, find your hard disk and double click it.
Go to the policies tab and check "Enable write caching"

It tells you what it is.

BTW, if it was checked already and you still got the error message with BootVIS, don't worry about it ... it's a little bug in BootVIS.

 

[allan]

Disregard the message. It's a bug in BootVis.

 

[Duke Zootin]

Originally posted by Elroy Jetson
Also, an optimization comes up with a timeout after reboot.

If BootVis is timing out after the reboot, chances are that the "Task Scheduler" service isn't running for some reason. Usually because it's been disabled on the suggestion of some tweak advice.

Head over to your "Control Panel" -> "Administrative Tools" and then "Services". Find the "Task Scheduler" service and if it's disabled set it to automatic.



Regards,
Dukey

 

[Elroy Jetson]

Originally posted by NetRyder
Right click My Computer.
Properties>Hardware>Device Manager

Under Disk Drives, find your hard disk and double click it.
Go to the policies tab and check "Enable write caching"

It tells you what it is.

BTW, if it was checked already and you still got the error message with BootVIS, don't worry about it ... it's a little bug in BootVIS.

There is no entry of "enable write caching" under my policies tab (XP pro), so I guess it is a bug. thanks, though, now I don't have to worry...

 

[Elroy Jetson]

Re: Re: Bootvis question

Originally posted by Duke Zootin
If BootVis is timing out after the reboot, chances are that the "Task Scheduler" service isn't running for some reason. Usually because it's been disabled on the suggestion of some tweak advice.

Head over to your "Control Panel" -> "Administrative Tools" and then "Services". Find the "Task Scheduler" service and if it's disabled set it to automatic.

Spot on, Duke, I used xp-antispy to disable that service, turned it back on, and it works. Nice boot time now, too!

Cheers, EJ