Re: Boot Defragment Enabled, Not Working

From: Ken (spampup_at_aol.com)
Date: 07/01/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:18:16 -0700

Actually, the Registry shows that the optimization
(defrag) did NOT occur in spite of the defrag being
enabled, the error being that there are "missing registry
entries".

Any ideas?

>-----Original Message-----
> Ken, if you look at what you posted Enable Reg_sz
Y means it's set
>to Y so you are doing Ok.
>"Ken" <spampup@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:2473101c45f9a$a71af2e0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hi, All,
>>
>> I believe I might have a problem with my eight month
old
>> Dell 5150 laptop
>> (Pentium 4\HT,500 MB RAM, Win XP Home Ed.)
>>
>> The system basically works well, although it takes over
>> two minutes to boot up. There are no error messages,
etc.
>>
>> I've been surfing the 'net out of curiosity, and I have
>> found a number of web sites that suggest "tweaks" to
>> speed up boot time. (I HAVE NOT TRIED ANY OF THESE YET,
>> and I haven't made any changes to my Boot.ini or other
>> boot files, or my Registry!!)
>>
>> One of the tweaks suggested is to make sure the feature
>> is enabled that allows Win XP to do a Boot Defrag, by
>> checking the Registry for the key:
>>
>>
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFun
>> ction
>>
>> and make sure the value for "Enable" is set to "Y"
>>
>> When I checked the appropriate Registry key on my
system
>> this is what I see:
>>
>> (Default) REG_SZ (value not set)
>> Enable REG_SZ Y
>> <no entry for TimeFileStamp>
>> LcnEndLocation REG_SZ <this is blank>
>> LcnStartLocation REG_SZ <this is blank>
>> OptimizeComplete REG_SZ No
>> OptimizeError REG_SZ missing registry
>> entries
>>
>> Does this mean that my machine has never succesfully
>> completed a Boot Defrag?
>>
>> Is ther anything I can do to find out what the "missing
>> registry entries" are, and how to either restore them
or
>> clear the registry keys so the system tries again to do
>> the defrag?
>>
>> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!!
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Ken
>
>
>.
>

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