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Making Vista boot faster
BillieTheBot
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If you are having a little of a less than stellar boot time performance from Vista after having your machine a while.
I just discovered that theres something within the msconfig boot tab, in advanced options. It turns out that you can select all the cores of your processor, be it dual or quad core, or more, and it really speeds things up. My boot time went from about 2 minute to 50 second! Going from 1 core used to 4.
I know a few people will also know about this, but thought I would mention it, just incase it could help someone.
I just discovered that theres something within the msconfig boot tab, in advanced options. It turns out that you can select all the cores of your processor, be it dual or quad core, or more, and it really speeds things up. My boot time went from about 2 minute to 50 second! Going from 1 core used to 4.
I know a few people will also know about this, but thought I would mention it, just incase it could help someone.
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Running Win 7 these days and it's nippy enough, I find the chokepoint in my system for booting windows is the hard disk. Though 2 minutes is a very long time for it to wait to load, mine is around the 40s mark at most.
Let me know of the results guys
I have a Quad Core machine so I've just turned it on
Hmmm. That does make sense. Well if I'm blown away by boot times, I'll report back.
I did notice Windows 7 was considerably rapid when it was on this system (until the BSODs got me annoyed enough to roll back)
@MrG
Ah, mine was unticked, so I guess I will notice no improvement
Then tick those options etc, and shut down and do it again, let us know :P
Just tried ticking 2 cores. I saw no improvement on the time to get to logon screen (47 seconds). Dropped about 7 seconds from the time from logging in to seeing the sidebar (32 seconds).
I'd rather suspend mine, but the power button 'pulses' with blue light, and it's so bright it's useless for sleeping in the same room as!
As for this test, I saw no noticeable improvement