Saturday, 19 April 2014
How to speed up system startup in Windows 8
There are many a times when your startup becomes slow like a snail and your system takes minutes to boot.
With just a few tweaks, you can get your boot time to 5-10 seconds. This post will give you some tips and tricks to increase your startup speed.
Just follow these simple steps:
Step 1. Check your Hard Disk
Over time, your hard drives gets degraded both physically and digitally. It’s important to monitor your drives health. An error or damaged sector can throw software loading into an infinite loop causing long load times.
Check your drive health in 3 simple steps:
1) Right Click on your Hard Drive and then click on Properties.
2) Select Tools tab. Under the Error-Checking option, click on Check. After, the check up gives you repair options or a clean bill of health.
3) Restart to get a faster boot up.
Step 2. Reduce Start-up Delay
To get faster boot up speeds, you can cut the boot delay to 0. The delay is in place to allow your startup processes some breathing room during loading. Your default delay is 30 seconds. So, you can eliminate it for faster boot up times.
1) Go to your Start menu, type run and open it.
2) Type msconfig
3) In the system configuration utility, select BOOT tab. Change the default setting for the Time Out from 30 to 5 seconds.
Read => How to increase the performance of your pc.
Step 3: Defrag your Hard Drive
There is a filling system in your Hard Disk which is used to locate files. Over time, filing system gets disorganized. Periodically, you need to reorganize this filing system on your hard drive. So we are going to Defragment your Hard Disk to put your system in order.
1) Right Click on you C: Drive or your another drive (But defrag all the drives).
2) Click on Properties and then select Tools tab.
3) Under the Optimize and Defragment Hard Drive option, click on Optimize.
4) A new window will pop-up, then select your Hard Drive and click on Analyze. Let the process to finish.
Step 4: Remove Excess Start-up Programs
Most programs you install to your computer are likely to load when you startup your computer. Eventually you will have a load of programs that kill faster boot times. You need to reduce the startup programs to speed your startup. Her's how you can disable unnecessary startup programs:
1) Go to your Start menu, type run and open it.
2) Type msconfig
3) In the system configuration utility, select Startup tab. It will ask you to open Task Manager. Open Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
4) In the Task Manager window, select Start-up tab. Select on any program and click on Disable.
You will effectively increase your boot time if you disable all of them.
These tricks also work in Windows 7.
Also read => How to increase the performance of your pendrives.
So you have successfully increased the speed of your system startup.
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There are many a times when your startup becomes slow like a snail and your system takes minutes to boot.
With just a few tweaks, you can get your boot time to 5-10 seconds. This post will give you some tips and tricks to increase your startup speed.
Just follow these simple steps:
Step 1. Check your Hard Disk
Over time, your hard drives gets degraded both physically and digitally. It’s important to monitor your drives health. An error or damaged sector can throw software loading into an infinite loop causing long load times.
Check your drive health in 3 simple steps:
1) Right Click on your Hard Drive and then click on Properties.
2) Select Tools tab. Under the Error-Checking option, click on Check. After, the check up gives you repair options or a clean bill of health.
3) Restart to get a faster boot up.
Step 2. Reduce Start-up Delay
To get faster boot up speeds, you can cut the boot delay to 0. The delay is in place to allow your startup processes some breathing room during loading. Your default delay is 30 seconds. So, you can eliminate it for faster boot up times.
1) Go to your Start menu, type run and open it.
2) Type msconfig
3) In the system configuration utility, select BOOT tab. Change the default setting for the Time Out from 30 to 5 seconds.
Read => How to increase the performance of your pc.
Step 3: Defrag your Hard Drive
There is a filling system in your Hard Disk which is used to locate files. Over time, filing system gets disorganized. Periodically, you need to reorganize this filing system on your hard drive. So we are going to Defragment your Hard Disk to put your system in order.
1) Right Click on you C: Drive or your another drive (But defrag all the drives).
2) Click on Properties and then select Tools tab.
3) Under the Optimize and Defragment Hard Drive option, click on Optimize.
4) A new window will pop-up, then select your Hard Drive and click on Analyze. Let the process to finish.
Step 4: Remove Excess Start-up Programs
Most programs you install to your computer are likely to load when you startup your computer. Eventually you will have a load of programs that kill faster boot times. You need to reduce the startup programs to speed your startup. Her's how you can disable unnecessary startup programs:
1) Go to your Start menu, type run and open it.
2) Type msconfig
3) In the system configuration utility, select Startup tab. It will ask you to open Task Manager. Open Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
4) In the Task Manager window, select Start-up tab. Select on any program and click on Disable.
You will effectively increase your boot time if you disable all of them.
These tricks also work in Windows 7.
Also read => How to increase the performance of your pendrives.
So you have successfully increased the speed of your system startup.
If you like this post then follow us on Facebook or like our Official Page.
