Boot your Computer Faster
October 09, 2006
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 msoffice,messengers other utilities that u may not need at startup).Dont 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.

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posted by Kartik at 1:12 AM | Permalink |


10 Comments:


At 7:05 PM, Blogger Computer Geek

I knew this trick like an year ago.

I love ur blog.

 

At 2:30 PM, Blogger jay18

Hi I hav a doubt as already this value is set to Y and should I change it to ENABLE. Pls let me know.. :-)

 

At 3:02 PM, Blogger Kartik

@jay18

Well if you already have Y in the value data field then you already have the Boot defragament on.
You dont need to do anything else.

 

At 4:00 PM, Blogger jay18

ok. thank u. :-)

 

At 10:22 PM, Anonymous Anonymous

this site is wonderful and fruitful
really man u r doing great job.
keep it up

 

At 7:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous

Hey I can't find the HKEY thing after opening regedit. It is supposed to be on the left side, right? But I can't find it. Now what to do? :(

 

At 7:10 PM, Anonymous Anonymous

Hey I found till the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\. It was the first thing on the menu. But after that I swear I searched n searched but couldn't find Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOpt imizeFunction. Now what should I do? :(

 

At 7:20 PM, Anonymous Anonymous

Hey I finally found it so thought of informing u..lolz...and the value is already Y. :) But I did apply the first trick n it worked! So thank u so much. U r very sweet. :)

 

At 8:00 PM, Blogger Mitesh Asher

your advise has come in handy mate...thanx
do visit my blog when u find the time

 

At 7:53 AM, Blogger Nandhu

Hi Karthik,

You are doing an excellent job. Keep it up. Do u have an idea of finding a key logger installed in a machine. Now the key logging softwares are pretty clever, that we are unable to find them in services even. Please have a post on it.

Thanks and Regards
Nandha