BootRacer 3.8

2.7 out of 5 stars 2.7 (53 votes)

(December 22, 2011)

Windows 7/2000/2003/2008/Vista/XP / Freeware / 1,438 downloads

BootRacer is a Windows boot speed meter. Race your Windows boot using BootRacer and look at the result boot rating. If your rating is not good or an excellent, you need speed up your Windows startup. BootRacer is an easy in everyday using and it suites for even novice users. BootRacer can detect the time to user logon and the full computer boot time. Also BootRacer writes results to the Windows event log and calculates the best boot time. BootRacer uses minimum of your computer resources.

  • Publisher

    Greatis Software

  • Homepage

    BootRacer

  • Uninstaller

    Yes

  • Latest Changes

    - A contest for the fastest computer. Any BootRacer user can take part in this contest

    - A function of collecting PC data has been added

    - The ability to collect information on user computers and IP addresses into one database has been added into the Business and Enterprise versions

Reviews of BootRacer

  1. 1 out of 5 stars
    RWW

    Reviewing 3.0 (Dec 23, 2010)

    Talk about a waste of time!

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    morrig

    Reviewing 3.0 Beta (Dec 17, 2010)

    This does as it says it's simple to use ,and tells what your real boot to use time and keep an eye on it?

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    emanresU deriseD

    Reviewing 2.0 (Dec 2, 2009)

    Wow--what a bunch of stoneheads we have here. Let me make some points to you people:

    1. Resuming from standby is not "booting". And it's not a viable option for people who use full-disk encryption, because it's not secure (the encryption keys are stored in memory where they could be theoretically confiscated).

    2. Restarting is not the same as "booting". A VBS script that determines how long it takes to RESTART is not performing the same function as a utility that determines how long it takes to BOOT (or login).

    3. This utility does not claim to reduce boot times. It only claims to help determine boot times. The point is that you can change your system configuration, and determine whether it affected your boot time. (For example, by adding/removing/updating drivers, adding/removing/updating software, changing Windows configuration, etc.)

  4. 1 out of 5 stars
    CyberDoc999

    Reviewing 2.0 Beta (Sep 29, 2009)

    My Computer Boots up in 2 or 3 seconds
    because I use the suspend to ram feature
    (called sleep or s3)

  5. 1 out of 5 stars
    Psychlone

    Reviewing 2.0 Beta (Sep 29, 2009)

    This has been available for quite a long time in VBS format without a GUI.
    Now, if this program had a way of tracing the boot FILES and the time it takes to load them, then rearrange the files in the Prefetch or be able to cache them faster, then this program would be of some use.

    As of now, the GUI is the only difference from what's been around for years.

    Here's the code for the VBS file. Copy and paste it into a new Text document, save as (whatever file name) .VBS (making sure to change the file format to All Files)

    Option Explicit
    On Error Resume Next
    Dim Wsh, Time1, Time2, Result, PathFile, MsgResult, MsgA, AppName, KeyA, KeyB, TimeDiff
    MsgA = "Please close all running applications and click on OK."
    KeyA = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\RestartTime\"
    KeyB = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\RestartTime"
    AppName = "Restart-Time"
    Set Wsh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
    PathFile = """" & WScript.ScriptFullName & """"
    Result = wsh.RegRead(KeyA & "Times")
    if Result = "" then
    MsgResult = Msgbox (MsgA, vbOKCancel, AppName)
    If MsgResult = vbcancel then WScript.Quit
    Wsh.RegWrite KeyA & "Times", left(Time,8), "REG_SZ"
    Wsh.RegWrite KeyB, PathFile, "REG_SZ"
    Wsh.Run "cmd /c Shutdown -r -t 00", false, 0
    else
    Wsh.RegDelete KeyA & "Times"
    Wsh.RegDelete KeyA
    Wsh.RegDelete KeyB
    TimeDiff = DateDiff("s",Result,left(Time,8))
    MsgBox "Your computer restarts in " & TimeDiff & " seconds", VbInformation, AppName
    end if
    wscript.Quit

    Then, simply run it - it will restart your computer and tell you how fast it boots up.

    Sorry Greatis Software - this is **pointless** without the ability to actually FIX the boot time problems!

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