Speed up your boot time, hot tip #1

We all would like to have a blazing fast computer but each time we buy a new one the next day a faster system appears. So what we can do is to make little tweaks and hacks so that the system boots faster. Here Ill be discussing some tips that can be done by all. Some of you may already know it but some may not.

The first tip is a Windows only tip. This is a simple one and as this is the starting the tip is also a small one (better ones will soon follow). this will make small improvement in boot up time

Tips :

1 . Take Microsoft System Configuration Utility by typing "msconfig" in the RUN dialogs (Start»Run).
Select BOOT.ini tab from General,SYSTEM.INI,WIN.INI,Services and Startup tabs. There will be a check box NOGUIBOOT enable that. You have disabled the Windows Splash Screen (an animated loading indicator with the windows logo on black background that appears just before the welcome screen) that appears every time you boot. This will improve the boot up time a little bit.
2 . Goto Start»All Programs»Startup and delete all the programs that you don't want at start up. (A powerful function is provided by msconfig but ill deal with in detail later.)

So try this out today itself and tell me if you have any suggestions or doubts...

Warning
Enabling NOGUIBOOT will make the boot-time messages not to be shown. This means if an ERROR checking has been scheduled you will not see the dialogue that says "An error check has been scheduled press any key to cancel it:" also if you use third party tools to format your harddrive during boot time there can be a problem.

You may also like to read the 2nd post on Speeding up your System. Also know the unknown reason for Sudden System Slowdown

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