A faster boot up seems to be an elusive goal more than a reality.
However, you can decrease the time it takes to start up your computer in
Windows by minutes in some cases. With just a few tweaks, you can get
your boot up time down to 30 seconds and not 20 minutes. This article
will give some quick and easy tips for faster boot up times.
Step 1: Hard Disk Check Up
Over
time, your hard drives gets degraded both physically and digitally.
It’s important to monitor your drives health. An error or damaged sector
can throw software loading into an infinite loop causing long load
times. To check your drive health:
1. Click Start
2. Choose Computer
3. Right Click your Hard Drive
4. Choose Properties
5. Click Check Drives Health. After, the check up gives you repair options or a clean bill of health.
6. Restart to get a faster boot up.
Step 2: Eliminate Startup Delay
To
get faster boot up speeds, you can cut the boot delay to 0. The delay
is in place to allow your startup processes some breathing room during
loading. Your default delay is 30 seconds. So, you can eliminate it for
faster boot up times.
1. Open your Start menu.
2. Click Run
3. In the command screen, type msconfig
4. In the system configuration utility, click either BOOT tab.
5. In the boot menu, change the default setting for the Time Out from 30 to 5 seconds.
Step 3: Organize your Hard Drive
If
you are looking for something in a messy room, naturally, it’s going to
take you longer to find something. This is a good metaphor for a hard
drive. Over time, filing system gets disorganized. Periodically, you
need to reorganize this filing system on your hard drive. Luckily,
Windows has a good utility called Defrag that will put your system in
order.
1.Open the Start Menu
2. Click on My Computer
3. Right Click your C: drive or your hard drive image.
4. Scroll down to the Click Properties
5. In the Properties Menus, Open the “Tools” menu.
6. Choose Defragment.
7. In the Disk Deframenter menu. Click on Defragment
Step 4: Remove Excess Startup Programs
Most
programs you add to your computer will opt to load when you startup
your computer. Eventually you will rack up a load of programs that kill
faster boot times. You need to reduce the startup programs. You can
easily disable unnecessary startup programs. Here is how:
1. Open your Start menu.
2. Click Run
3. Type msconfig, click Enter
4. In the system configuration utility,click either services or startup tab.
5. Uncheck all programs that your are no longer want to run in the background.
6. Click OK
