windows boot up time ?

jamjar · 4 Dec 2011 at 11:10

Hi all i remember a while back seeing a tweak in the registry to speed up windows 7 boot up and shut down times does anyone know anything about this ? as i do remember it worked well

superleeds27 · 4 Dec 2011 at 12:31

Not on about changing the number of cores?

1. Type “msconfig” (without quotes) in Vista or Windows 7 start menu search box and hit enter.

2. Click Continue if you get a UAC prompt.By default, you won’t get a UAC prompt in Windows 7.

3. Navigate to “Boot” tab and click on “Advanced options” button.

4. Check the box named “Number of processors” and also select the number of processors from the drop down box.

5. Click “Ok” and restart to see the time difference.

6. You are done.

jamjar · 4 Dec 2011 at 12:43

superleeds27 said:
Not on about changing the number of cores?

1. Type “msconfig” (without quotes) in Vista or Windows 7 start menu search box and hit enter.

2. Click Continue if you get a UAC prompt.By default, you won’t get a UAC prompt in Windows 7.

3. Navigate to “Boot” tab and click on “Advanced options” button.

4. Check the box named “Number of processors” and also select the number of processors from the drop down box.

5. Click “Ok” and restart to see the time difference.

6. You are done.

Well no it wasn,t that ..but when it says number of processors should that be 1 ? mine is a Intel i7

PhillyDee · 4 Dec 2011 at 12:57

yes. You only have one processor. Many cores, 1 chip.

Nymins · 4 Dec 2011 at 14:08

jamjar said:
Well no it wasn,t that ..but when it says number of processors should that be 1 ? mine is a Intel i7

No it should say more (4 I think for an i7). On my laptop now, which uses a Core 2 Duo Su7300, it says "2" under the number of processors.

jamjar · 4 Dec 2011 at 14:31

Nymins said:
No it should say more (4 I think for an i7). On my laptop now, which uses a Core 2 Duo Su7300, it says "2" under the number of processors.

yeah but thats the number of cores there is only one CPU in the unit or am i wrong ?

madindehead · 4 Dec 2011 at 15:54

jamjar said:
yeah but thats the number of cores there is only one CPU in the unit or am i wrong ?

When the term "number of processors" is used like that though, it refers to cores and threads. Not physical chips. Why else would they go so high in basic Windows?