Speed up your system boot

A tiny software startup from Israel is trying to make your PC less frustrating. Soluto which is currently in beta achieves it by speeding up your boot time and fixing annoying system slowdowns.

The basic idea behind Soluto is to use the experience of thousands of PC experts to help the masses.  This software runs as a background service that watches your PC as it works, detects slowdowns and tries to analyze the cause. By comparing those events and possible causes against a database of apps, drivers, and other software it can suggest solutions that you can implement with a click or two.

Once you've installed the software and rebooted your PC, Soluto springs into action, tracking every single process that runs during the boot process, and then allows you to easily drill down into the list of processes to see exact times for each one. Further the applications are grouped into "No-brainer" or "Potentially removable" groups.

Once you've identified an application, you can drill down into the details and control it directly from this screen. You can Pause the application, which will effectively remove it from the boot process. Or you can Delay it, which will get you to a working desktop a little quicker. The graph next to the buttons shows you what other users did, so if you really have no idea what something is, may be you can use the wisdom of the crowd.

You can also go into the advanced section to find more about the process such as when you installed it, why it runs in your boot, Soluto recommendation, how much of your boot time the process consumes etc.

Overall the software worked really great. Its very lightweight and so far its recommendations have been reasonable. It has helped me bring down my boot time to 1:16 minutes.

I think the real innovation that Soluto is bringing to the table is in its PC Genome knowledgebase. Eventually, it will consist of a database of applications derived from the Soluto agent installed on users’ PCs.

Check out this short video which does a great job of explaining the software, how to use it, and how it can help you troubleshoot the boot process:

Good luck with Soluto!