Increase Vista bootup speed

Macky

Macky

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Start, search, MSConfig, Boot, Advanced Options, Tick Number of processors and change to however many you have.

This should hopefully improve boot time by a few seconds, certainly nothing drastic. Besides, I get around 30 seconds anyway.
 
This is for *restricting* the number of processors that the kernel uses. It has little to do with bootup at all. By default (i.e. unless you change this setting) Windows will use all available CPU cores.

Yet another "Windows tweak" that just isn't.
 
I've put MSConfig in the like main part of the Startup bar, where all my apps are.
Startup.jpg
 
Why? do you use it that often?

And, scary scary start menu! Far too much stuff there :p
But then I'm using Win7 with the new taskbar, I have all the apps I generally use laid out along it - the joys of 1080p resolution :)
 
Macky said:
Start, search, MSConfig, Boot, Advanced Options, Tick Number of processors and change to however many you have.

This should hopefully improve boot time by a few seconds, certainly nothing drastic. Besides, I get around 30 seconds anyway.
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It's actually quite worrying the information you are giving out without fully understanding what you are doing.
 
Am i reading this correct

In vista x64, when i check in the Start, search, MSConfig, Boot, Advanced Options i don't see 4 cores checked and i have a q6600

So i check 4 cores and alter two other settings also

So the os (eg: my vista x64) should have auto checked four cores ??? even though it never has auto-checked all four cores (btw this "tweak" as i thought it was is on a well known x64 site)

And well to add to the mix, it knocks 30secs boot time without sp1 and obviously the new sp2 installed, so really this tweak i've used since vista came out does nothing really but somehow speeds my reboot time up ??

Kinda not following some posts above

Ohh i take off the GUI and alter a timeout too, do these afteran initial clean format on main drive

Curious for more info that's all
 
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Defiance_co said:
In vista x64, when i check in the Start, search, MSConfig, Boot, Advanced Options i don't see 4 cores checked and i have a q6600
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This was my experience with the Q6600 as well, so I changed it to see if it did make a difference but it didn't so I changed it back to how it was and never thought about it again.

I hate these tweaks as much as the next person but it was worth a punt.
 
Only thing which makes much difference to Vista is disabling all indexing. Everything else usually breaks something like disabling certain services (which the non experts think are non essential!!!!!) stops the control panel from opening and disables various admin functions.

People who write these so called Vista tweak guides are just making problems for the ones who blindly follow them :eek:
 
AWPC said:
Only thing which makes much difference to Vista is disabling all indexing. Everything else usually breaks something like disabling certain services (which the non experts think are non essential!!!!!) stops the control panel from opening and disables various admin functions.

People who write these so called Vista tweak guides are just making problems for the ones who blindly follow them :eek:
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Agreed.

Most of the time while you don't get issues, it is pointless to do it - the performance difference is so small anyway as to be not worth the effort.
 
This tweak has been proven ineffectual; it's merely designed to help system builders troubleshoot malfunctioning multicore CPUs.
 
If you load MSCONFIG, and click on the BOOT tab, you'll see a tickbox at the bottom right called "OS boot information"

I have this ticked, so when it boots, it tells you how many processors it's using, and the amount of ram you have, rather than just the standard bootup screen.

I can see from this that both of the cores on my E6600 are being used, without having to enable or disable anything.

Indeed, I enabled this not long after installing Vista, and have left it ticked ever since, on both of my Vista rigs.

Vin.
 
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