How to Boot your Computer Faster

Many computers take a lot of time to boot (or start). This is due to many reasons.

Some slight changes can do wonders for your system:

1. Press Start -> Run then type msconfig and press enter.

Go to the startup tab. Here you will see a list of startup items. These are all the programs that automatically start when you boot your PC. It is these that slow down the boot up process.

So uncheck all the unwanted items like ms-office, messengers other utilities that u may not need at startup). Don’t uncheck your antivirus software.

Restart your PC to and see for yourself, your PC will now boot faster….

2. A great new feature in Microsoft Windows XP is the ability to do a boot defragment. This places all boot files next to each other on the disk to allow for faster booting. By default this option is enabled, but on some systems it is not.

So below is the information on how to turn it on.

* Go to Start Menu and Click Run
* Type in regedit then click ok
* Find “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOpt imizeFunction”
* Select “Enable” from the list on the right
* Right on it and select “Modify”
* Change the value to Y .
* Reboot your PC and see the change yourself.