Saturday, December 08, 2007
How to speed up Windows startupٍ
When you buy a new Windows computer, it starts-up beautifully and pretty quick. Try installing Office, Skype, Live Messenger, iTunes, AVG antivirus, zipGenius and restarting the computer becomes a PAIN. Right after logging in, a 5-minute waiting period becomes a daily routine as the necessary files and programs start loading. Some of them respect your wishes and don’t start up automatically after logging into the system, others - no matter what you do - start up and call its five other plugins to start up as well (such as update managers and all).
There comes a day when you start your computer and wish none of these programs start launching. Here is how you can do that:
- Click
Start>Run - Type
msconfig - Click on “Startup” tab
- Very carefully deselect all the programs you DO NOT want to start at login. Such as Messenger applications, Acrobat updater, and anything else you have installed and you know you don’t need them at start-up and you will be able to run them whenever you want. BUT BE WARNED: do NOT deselect SYSTEM programs. There are programs on the list that are required by the system, so you want to make sure they start up as soon as you login. You really have to know what you are doing here.
- Click OK.
You can restart anytime, it’s not necessary you do it now.
After restarting you will get a message that you are in running SELECTIVE STARTUP, and that’s OK! It’s true, since you “selected” how you want your system to startup. Once you deselect anything from under the “Startup” tab, you are switched to SELECTIVE STARTUP in the General tab, just keep everything under selective startup checked as it is.
If you ever change your mind, you can always go back to msconfig and click NORMAL STARTUP from the General tab instead of SELECTIVE STARTUP. The NORMAL STARTUP will use the default settings when restarting your computer - which is starting up all programs on the list every time you log-in into your system.
You will be amazed to how fast you will be able to log-in after doing this.
Note: This is for advanced users and you are doing this at your own risk, I will not be held responsible if your system doesn’t load for any reason. Enjoy!
There are many ways to speed up Windows OS, feel free to share your ideas and concerns here…
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Comments
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Shay |
Sat Dec 08, 2007 at 08.00 pm
That’s true, hence the notice to BE CAREFUL when deselecting programs from the list.
Sometimes, removing programs from the startup like you do isn’t enough, there are always these other programs that refuse to be off the list. This method will make sure they NEVER startup. It’s also a method to destroy your computer. One wrong move and you can kiss your system goodbye!
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You know you just gave people the key to crashing their system! an easy interface and they delete everything! lol
I keep things to a minimum by checking the startup after every install, that way I list what is new and I remove then and their! It has become a habit