Is there a way to make my PC boot faster?

It takes a good minute to boot up. I have 4gb DDR2, HD4850, 3.01ghz Athlon X2, and a 640gb 5400rpm (I think...) Caviar Green HDD. Is there something I can do to make it faster? There's one screen that comes up after the energy star screen with a ton of numbers and stuff, I forget totally what it says but if you like I can check what it's for. That screen takes a good 10 seconds.

It takes a good minute to boot up. I have 4gb DDR2, HD4850, 3.01ghz Athlon X2, and a 640gb 5400rpm (I think...) Caviar Green HDD. Is there something I can do to make it faster? There's one screen that comes up after the energy star screen with a ton of numbers and stuff, I forget totally what it says but if you like I can check what it's for. That screen takes a good 10 seconds.

RobboElRobbo

start -> run -> msconfig

Under services tick the "hide all microsoft services" then select "disable all",,,then find anything related to your anti-virus or other ESSENTIAL software that needs to auto-load with windows.

Then go to "startup" and again de-select all but turn on essential stuff like anti-virus.

Then press Apply and restart.

There you go, super fast boot times :) Well providing you dont have malware :P

Also if your using Vista/Windows 7 then while your in MSCONFIG then under Boot -> advanced options you can tell windows to use more than one cpu core while booting up...as it only uses 1 core by default.

Alright thanks guys... I'll see if it works better right after this is done burning. ;)

Hmm... kinda helped. Maybe I just need a reformat. Has been about 7 months now so that's probably it.

My motherboard has something called "instant boot" and it boots in about 7 seconds. Don't know if other motherboards have it though.

My motherboard has something called "instant boot" and it boots in about 7 seconds. Don't know if other motherboards have it though.

Joe77

Sounds like sleep mode. Probably not a cold boot.

My motherboard has something called "instant boot" and it boots in about 7 seconds. Don't know if other motherboards have it though.

Joe77

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My motherboard has something called "instant boot" and it boots in about 7 seconds. Don't know if other motherboards have it though.

Domobomb

Sounds like sleep mode. Probably not a cold boot.

It's not sleep mode, you turn the pc off. Then next time you turn it on windows loads in seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BucIjXZVxXo

[QUOTE="Joe77"]

My motherboard has something called "instant boot" and it boots in about 7 seconds. Don't know if other motherboards have it though.

neatfeatguy

Oh right I didn't know that, it still has the same effect though and I imagine it's using very little power.

[QUOTE="neatfeatguy"][QUOTE="Joe77"]

My motherboard has something called "instant boot" and it boots in about 7 seconds. Don't know if other motherboards have it though.

Joe77

Oh right I didn't know that, it still has the same effect though and I imagine it's using very little power.

[QUOTE="Domobomb"]

[QUOTE="Joe77"]

My motherboard has something called "instant boot" and it boots in about 7 seconds. Don't know if other motherboards have it though.

Joe77

Sounds like sleep mode. Probably not a cold boot.

It's not sleep mode, you turn the pc off. Then next time you turn it on windows loads in seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BucIjXZVxXo

Also if your using Vista/Windows 7 then while your in MSCONFIG then under Boot -> advanced options you can tell windows to use more than one cpu core while booting up...as it only uses 1 core by default.

Daytona_178

Here are a few links you could follow to get the best out of your PC. They worked REALLY good for me, good luck with it.

• http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2333314,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532
• http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2110595,00.asp
• http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-speed-up-windows-7-boot/
• http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-speedup-windows-xp-vista-boot/
• http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/5160/the-20-best-windows-tweaks-that-still-work-in-windows-7/
• http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2348418,00.asp

I don't understand why anybody looking for help would choose to type in an obnoxious font which makes it harder for people who might want to help to read.

Your hard drive is what is slowing your boot time 5400 rpm wont win you any speed contest. Grab a faster hard drive or cheap ssd for your os that will speed everything up. The storage is the main bottle neck in almost every pc.

JKdefrag Run this Defragger/Optimizer/Fixup Tool. Really improved my boot times and system overall.

1) Defragment only.

2) Optimize Monthly.

Your hard drive is what is slowing your boot time 5400 rpm wont win you any speed contest. Grab a faster hard drive or cheap ssd for your os that will speed everything up. The storage is the main bottle neck in almost every pc.

ChiChiMonKilla

If $$$ isn't a problem, get an ssd :D

If $$$ isn't a problem, get an ssd :D

osiris667

[QUOTE="ChiChiMonKilla"]

Your hard drive is what is slowing your boot time 5400 rpm wont win you any speed contest. Grab a faster hard drive or cheap ssd for your os that will speed everything up. The storage is the main bottle neck in almost every pc.

Daytona_178

[QUOTE="ChiChiMonKilla"]

Your hard drive is what is slowing your boot time 5400 rpm wont win you any speed contest. Grab a faster hard drive or cheap ssd for your os that will speed everything up. The storage is the main bottle neck in almost every pc.

Daytona_178

Think about it cpu, gpu, memory speed have all increased by alot over the last 5 years but hard drive speed and the interface has not. The raptor has been the speed king for years and it's only recently ssd's have become affordable.

[QUOTE="Daytona_178"][QUOTE="ChiChiMonKilla"]

Your hard drive is what is slowing your boot time 5400 rpm wont win you any speed contest. Grab a faster hard drive or cheap ssd for your os that will speed everything up. The storage is the main bottle neck in almost every pc.

ChiChiMonKilla

Think about it cpu, gpu, memory speed have all increased by alot over the last 5 years but hard drive speed and the interface has not. The raptor has been the speed king for years and it's only recently ssd's have become affordable.

[QUOTE="ChiChiMonKilla"]

[QUOTE="Daytona_178"] Thats not true at all.Daytona_178

Think about it cpu, gpu, memory speed have all increased by alot over the last 5 years but hard drive speed and the interface has not. The raptor has been the speed king for years and it's only recently ssd's have become affordable.

Uhmm, an SSD will exponentially decrease boot time when compared to a regular harddisk. It will even more when compared to a - slow - 5400 RPM harddrive. A decent SSD has 0.1ms access time, while harddisks: 4200 RPM = 7.14ms, 5400 RPM = 5.55ms, 7200 RPM = 4.17ms, 10k RPM = 3ms, 15k RPM = 2ms. Not to talk about an SSD's read/write speeds.

The harddisk nowadays definitely is the only 'bottleneck' for the current hardware. But knowing SSDs are really expensive, it usually leads to customers putting two harddisks in RAID-0, which is fast enough.

[QUOTE="Daytona_178"][QUOTE="ChiChiMonKilla"]

Think about it cpu, gpu, memory speed have all increased by alot over the last 5 years but hard drive speed and the interface has not. The raptor has been the speed king for years and it's only recently ssd's have become affordable.

StraiN-ShifTeD

Uhmm, an SSD will exponentially decrease boot time when compared to a regular harddisk. It will even more when compared to a - slow - 5400 RPM harddrive. A decent SSD has 0.1ms access time, while harddisks: 4200 RPM = 7.14ms, 5400 RPM = 5.55ms, 7200 RPM = 4.17ms, 10k RPM = 3ms, 15k RPM = 2ms. Not to talk about an SSD's read/write speeds.

The harddisk nowadays definitely is the only 'bottleneck' for the current hardware. But knowing SSDs are really expensive, it usually leads to customers putting two harddisks in RAID-0, which is fast enough.

Thats not the point iam making, if you have a good clean install of windows and msconfig all of the **** away then even a budget HDD on a powerful system will load windows in a lot less than a minute.

[QUOTE="StraiN-ShifTeD"]

[QUOTE="Daytona_178"] But providing its SATA you wont find a HDD that makes windows load like crap...it might just add a couple of seconds onto the load time. So yeah he could ditch his HDD for a faster one and that will gain him maybe 3 seconds on his boot time compared to if he just formatted/re-installed his current drive.Daytona_178

Uhmm, an SSD will exponentially decrease boot time when compared to a regular harddisk. It will even more when compared to a - slow - 5400 RPM harddrive. A decent SSD has 0.1ms access time, while harddisks: 4200 RPM = 7.14ms, 5400 RPM = 5.55ms, 7200 RPM = 4.17ms, 10k RPM = 3ms, 15k RPM = 2ms. Not to talk about an SSD's read/write speeds.

The harddisk nowadays definitely is the only 'bottleneck' for the current hardware. But knowing SSDs are really expensive, it usually leads to customers putting two harddisks in RAID-0, which is fast enough.

Thats not the point iam making, if you have a good clean install of windows and msconfig all of the **** away then even a budget HDD on a powerful system will load windows in a lot less than a minute.

Think about it cpu, gpu, memory speed have all increased by alot over the last 5 years but hard drive speed and the interface has not. The raptor has been the speed king for years and it's only recently ssd's have become affordable.

ChiChiMonKilla

True, the storage is almost always the performance bottleneck in a modern PC. The RAM and CPU operate at speeds an order or two higher than the storage. While the SSD certainly is in the right direction towards deceasing this performance bottleneck, it's still too expensive IMO, epecially for the measly capacities they're peddling. :cry:

For improving boot-times, defrag will help, and probably optimization of the locations of the files that load during bootup will also help. This utility from Diskeeper (yeah the defrag compnay) is said to automatically learn the boot process and optimize it.

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100323005556&newsLang=en

Apparently it will be available on Asus systems as an OEM install at first.

Also if your using Vista/Windows 7 then while your in MSCONFIG then under Boot -> advanced options you can tell windows to use more than one cpu core while booting up...as it only uses 1 core by default.

Daytona_178

[QUOTE="ChiChiMonKilla"]

Think about it cpu, gpu, memory speed have all increased by alot over the last 5 years but hard drive speed and the interface has not. The raptor has been the speed king for years and it's only recently ssd's have become affordable.

Nanosteel

True, the storage is almost always the performance bottleneck in a modern PC. The RAM and CPU operate at speeds an order or two higher than the storage. While the SSD certainly is in the right direction towards deceasing this performance bottleneck, it's still too expensive IMO, epecially for the measly capacities they're peddling. :cry:

For improving boot-times, defrag will help, and probably optimization of the locations of the files that load during bootup will also help. This utility from Diskeeper (yeah the defrag compnay) is said to automatically learn the boot process and optimize it.

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100323005556&newsLang=en

Apparently it will be available on Asus systems as an OEM install at first.

You can get a 1TB SSD drive right now that is PCIe interface. It's also bootable and faster than most of them out there, i forget the brand but it was $3800 last time i checked lol.

EDIT: Here it is. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227500

[QUOTE="Daytona_178"]

Also if your using Vista/Windows 7 then while your in MSCONFIG then under Boot -> advanced options you can tell windows to use more than one cpu core while booting up...as it only uses 1 core by default.

CrazyKilljoy117

I can verify that Daytona's tips work - many thanks!

[QUOTE="CrazyKilljoy117"]

[QUOTE="Daytona_178"]

Also if your using Vista/Windows 7 then while your in MSCONFIG then under Boot -> advanced options you can tell windows to use more than one cpu core while booting up...as it only uses 1 core by default.

Daytona_178

You wouldn't believe how many people I've come across that "screwed up" their PC's after reading and doing something posted on the internet :P

[QUOTE="Daytona_178"][QUOTE="CrazyKilljoy117"] Just a heads up for anyone reading, I wouldn't recommend doing this if you're afraid of tinkering with some advanced computing since this procedure may cause your computer to lock up and crash after the login screen. No way to access your computer without going into safe mode and changing the boot-up process back to 1 core.

CrazyKilljoy117

You wouldn't believe how many people I've come across that "screwed up" their PC's after reading and doing something posted on the internet :P

actually...they did include those instructions. He mentioned to tick the "Hide Microsoft Services" box

I can verify that Daytona's tips work - many thanks!

entropyecho