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Speeding up your boot (part 2)

8 February 2009
Written by: Sherill Posted under Basic Skills, Technical, Tips, Troubleshooting

There are many ways you can speed up your booting. One simple way is to have your boot drive be a small dedicated drive that only houses Windows, while everything else can be installed in a separate hard disk or partition (just choose a different destination drive during installation of any program). This way, you also don’t need to backup everything in case of a reformat, as your personal files are stored separately from your system files.

You should also unplug any USB drives as they also contribute to slower startups.

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Another way is to use MSCONFIG. Simply type msconfig into the “Run” option on your Start Menu, go to the Startup tab, and uncheck all the other unessential programs that Windows loads on startup, which makes your computer boot slower. To know which is important and which is not, look at the Command section to see which program the startup item is related to.


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  1. Windows Vista Tips and Tricks » Blog Archive » Disk cleanup said,

    on March 10th, 2009 at 2:24 am

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