BootRacer review: Utility will time your PC boot, but won't speed it up

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BootRacer BootRacer is a great tool for monitoring your PC's health over a long period of time, but don't expect it to improve performance.

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There's nothing more frustrating than turning on your computer and watching programs slowly load up. You sit there, not sure exactly how long you're going to have to wait, as all those resource-hogging startup programs take their own sweet time. Well, wonder no more: BootRacer can take the mystery out of your PC start-ups.

BootRacer main menu gives some detailed information about the startup time.

After a free download and install, the program will be ready to time your next PC restart. (BootRacer remains free for personal use, but business users must pony up after trying the program.) Though you can't see it, it starts timing the moment the PC starts the boot-up process. Those who aren't quick at entering your password or logging in don't need to worry. BootRacer subtracts the time it takes for user input to make an accurate assessment at how quick your PC performs.

Once the desktop is up, a small dual timer appears in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. The timer on the top ticks down the seconds until your PC is done booting up the necessary files to be responsive while the timer on the bottom counts up the total time it takes to boot.

Rank your boot time against those of other PCs running BootRacer.

A summary screen appears when the PC is completely done booting to review your time and score. Digging deeper, you will see a breakdown of what section of the boot-up took the most time and a star rating compared to other PCs that upload their results. You can choose to submit your own results to both claim your global rank as well as help improve future versions of BootRacer.

Options are scarce. You can choose whether you want BootRacer to run every time you boot-up or only single tests, if you want the timer to show, and what statistics to record. A history page will give you every previous boot results and the change in time from the previous boot. You can add notes to each result or upload them to the global rankings.

A detailed history of your startups can show computer degradation over time.

BootRacer is great for testing just how the decisions you make with your PC affect your start-up time in the long run. PCs tend to slow down as registries and programs begin to muck up the works, and now you can track it. However, that's where BootRacer's usefulness ends. There is an option to "Speed up!" but it just links you to SpeedUp 2013, another program that claims to fix everything slowing down the start-up process. (PCWorld hasn't reviewed SpeedUp 2013, but 2012 received a middling review, partly because the $30 program performed tasks that free programs handle just as well.) BootRacer doesn't do anything to fix an issue itself.

You get the green light once your PC is all ready to go,

For the PC enthusiast who loves to monitor every aspect of their computer's health and performance, BootRacer is a must-have. For those simply trying to speed up their boot times, installing this will probably be more depressing than anything. It won't do much to help, but it will confirm you do indeed have glacial boot-up times.

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Review: PerfectRegistry you want to speed up your PC

Running your PC not quite with the same speed as you once you may be looking for a solution. Something that can accelerate your PC quickly and easily. Raxco $20 PerfectRegistry aims to do just that: this low-cost application is designed to improve the overall performance of your PC by optimizing its registration. It is easy to use and can be very useful to some people, but PerfectRegistry is not a perfect solution for every PC.

PC registry is an important system file, where vast amounts of information are stored on your computer. Almost everything you do, if you are using Windows, is somewhere recorded in your register. Therefore, it can become confusing could get - and only your PC slow down. They clean up like a simple solution, but messing with your registry can be risky. Some registry cleaners can go too far, delete parts that you actually need, and impact on the performance of your PC in the wrong direction. But Raxco says that PerfectRegistry 2.0, not one of these products, pointing out that it already "well tested and used by thousands." And while everything not the wrong fix it with my PC was, it helped PerfectRegistry to clean up, and put them on the right path to faster performance.

PerfectRegistry attractive design helps to assess the integrity of your system at a quick glance.

Tried PerfectRegistry I was used to a Windows 7 Desktop, in recent years, hundreds of software programs test. Many of these titles have been installed and uninstalled several times, and - probably as a result - the system ran slowly and plunging down more often than it should be.

Raxco program is easy to use: when you him start, it starts for the first time, your PC automatically scans. If you have used it before, it shows the General system condition based on your last scan and can start a new search with a click of a button. Its interface is neat and attractive, and it shows you, what it is looking for scan.

PerfectRegistry of the first scan of my PC took a whopping 1257 registry error, I found the somewhat daunting - and a bit alarming. The error I not sure are organized into categories, but that their title am (System com similar to and ActiveX errors, related user errors and start and uninstall error) as clearly as they can be, to should explain. Each category has a graphic that shows the registry Zerstören level from low to high.

You can use the program a bit deeper digging; Click on each category, see the type and number of errors of that it found by subcategory. But even here, the subcategories are to be imprecisely named really useful. Shared files and two sub categories in the system category similar errors are deep, for example.

Fortunately, more information is available by clicking on the button "Error details" at the bottom of the screen. This connects you to a log of all errors found, file names, and information about the issue. This Protocol will be useful, savvy PC users, but will overwhelm someone else. I could leave local issues I'd deleted files and programs I would uninstall, but bugs makes also listed were written in Sanskrit. I would be a computer newbie, I would have run probably as soon as you by the PerfectRegistry.

Instead I decided to accept all of its updates, as recommended, mean crossing fingers that nothing would go wrong. I was relieved that the software will automatically create a system restore point before to fix anything so that you can undo the changes if necessary. As it turned out, but I don't have it needed. My PC is running since well - and dare I say a bit faster - because I used PerfectRegistry. It is not as good as new, but it runs a bit faster, and it is run and sleep far faster.

This program is not for everyone. But if you have a slow PC and know enough about them has an idea of what is wrong, PerfectRegistry could be the tool you need to it runs just a bit faster.

Note: The download button on the product information page takes you to the manufacturers website, where you will need to register to use the free demo of the software.

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