FYI, no response required;

The last couple of betas seems to have noticably increased my boot time. I took DF off autostart and put it in the task scheduler on a 60 second delay, and problem goes away.

Other than that, no other issues.

As always, great work & thanks.

Sarris

Hi Keith;

It makes no difference on or off. I just put DF on a 30 sec. delay and it loads without issue right after boot completes. I put all my big programs (Skype, ObjectDock, and a couple of security programs) on a few second staggered delay in the task scheduler. I seem to get a much better Windows boot and it only adds a minute or two. There really is no need for Windows to try to load everything all at once.

Here's what I know, I'm using Win 7 x64 w/ 32 gb ram & Glary Utilities Boot Timer:

1. My boot to desktop with only Classic Star Menu, MSE, & Win7 Sidebar = 28 sec.

2. If I add DF with Hooks on = 1 min 10 sec.

3. App hooks off = 48 sec.

I've started using Glary Utilities to modify the startup order and stagger delay all startup programs but the 3 noted in #1.

As I said, no big deal for me as these are little piss ant delays and my HW is fast. I just thought you'd like to know.

Regards and thanks;

Sarris

FYI - a good article on locating the cause of W7 slow booting:

http://itexpertvoice.com/home/what’s-taking-so-long-how-to-fight-slow-startup-times-in-windows-7/