One of the top complaints I receive from day to day is “my PC is booting slowly”. This can be caused by many different factors, but below are a few tasks that any user can do to help speed up boot time of their PC.
Cleanup of Startup Items
- While logged into your Windows profile hit the Windows Key and R at the same time.
- This will open the Run window. Type ‘msconfig’ without the quotes into the box and hit Enter.
- Click the Startup tab.
- In the far left hand column there are multiple check boxes next to your startup items.
- Review items and for those items you deem as unnecessary to start at boot, uncheck the box.
- Hit apply once satisfied and then you should be prompted to reboot.
I would suggest leaving any anti-virus programs, as well as, pointing devices enabled. Common startup items that should be disabled are iTunes, Apple Help, any printer software, etc.
Increase Amount of Processors Used At Boot
- While logged into your Windows profile hit the Windows Key and R at the same time.
- This will open the Run window. Type ‘msconfig’ without the quotes into the box and hit Enter.
- Click the Boot tab.
- Click the ‘Advanced options…’ button.
- Click the check box next to ‘Number of processors:’.
- From the drop down select the highest number available.
- Click OK.
- Click OK again and then you should be prompted to reboot.
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