How do I make my PC to boot up faster?
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please tell us what version of operation system do you use.\n\nI provide some ways in WindowsXP:\nI.\n1.Start\n2.Run\n3.type "msconfig"\n4.Startup\n5.you can disable all of them(you can recover them)\n\nII. Please use Windows Classic theme, it takes the lowest resource in operation system and makes your system faster.\n1.right click on the desktop\n2.Properties\n3.Themes\n4.choose "Windows Classic"\n\nIII. If you use antivirus software such as Norton Antivirus 2006, there is an option for antivirus software to scan comprehensive or common files, you might choose common files to make it faster.\n\nIV. Adjust the boot order in BIOS to make Hard Disk be the first will help one or two seconds.\n\nV. Defrage your Hard Disk with defragement software, there is a software in WindowsXP(you might use better defragement software such as Diskeeper)\n1.Start\n2.Programs\n3.Accessories\n4.System tools\n5.Defaragement\n\nVI. be sure there is no spy, virus or worm in your system, becuase usually it wastes myriad of system resource.\n\nVII. I worked with those ways with 128MB, Intel 1.5G(CPU), WindowsXP SP2 Professional and it worked fast, I upgraded it with 512MB for online game. I will recommand you to garner at least 512MB for WindowsXP Professional SP2
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Go to Start Menu, click RUN. \nType msconfig and hit enter. \nYou should see a pop up box.\nGo to Startup tab and uncheck all the programs that you do not want on your start up. \nThis will prevent those programs from starting up when you restart windows. \nThis will usually make your computer go a little faster if you have do not have much memory on your computer.\nYou do not want a bunch of things running in your background during startup if it is not necessary.\n\nYou might want to change your fan. You can get some cheap ones at http://www.newegg.com or http://www.tigerdirect.com \n\nJust get a new fan to replace the old one unless you just want to purchase a new computer.\n\nIf you want a smooth computer to go faster, then you might want to buy more RAMS for your PC. RAMS will allow you open as many programs as you want all at once and it will launch your programs faster. Go to control panel and then SYSTEMS and under the general tab will tell you how much RAM you have. If you only have 128MB or 256MB, its time for an upgrade. Get about 512MB to 1GIG...its very simple to install. \n\nIf you have problems, just let me know.
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1) Run a defrag utility at the end of every week.\n2) Regularly scan for and remove viruses/spyware/adware.\n3) Get unused icons off your desktop.\n4) Cut down on running processes. You can do this by telling some of the programs you see near the time in your start up menu NOT to start on startup if you are not immediately going to use them. Also research the functionality of the services under Control Panel->Administrative tools and set their startup type to disabled if you will not be using them (right click the service you want to stop, then select properties). Don't stop these without doing your research because you DO need some of them.\n5. If you are still slow, add more RAM. \n\nFor faster internet, also clear your cache, cookies, and temp files (Tools->Internet Options in Windows, IE)
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Not neccessarily. If you have in your bios settings for your pc to search in cdrom, floppy, network & then the harddrive for the operating system it will take longer, as does if you have the standard bios check running first. Once your OS is loaded if you have tons of junk running on start up it can take forever for your pc to load. No idea what OS you have - run>msconfig to see what is running on start up. You can download msconfig on google if you have XP. Hijack this is also good to check for things that should not be loading. While your at it download spybot search & destroy and adaware to check for junk. They will also clean your pc of cookies that phone home and slow your pc on the internet. Download Cleanup! & that will clean everything on your pc freeing up memory & anything the previous programs might have left.\n\nLast but not least, once your pc is running clean & lean of junk sucking power and using your connection for it's own nefarious means and slowing you down. Sometimes it's just the website. They might have tons of junk running that slows load time. They might not have the fastest servers. They might not be able to handle x amount of concurrent visitors (think rush hour on expressway all getting off at one exit). If you can load one site quickly, and another is a constant slow one... it's not you.\n\n512 will only make your pc be able to load things into memory faster which would include your browser (think big pic's trying to load), but does not affect sites you are trying to visit as long as they are moving along on their side (think of it like someone is handing you plates, 256ram you can handle so many plates, at 512ram you can handle more  plates that are heavier... but if the guy handing them to you is still slow..... your being faster doesn't do much good) The DSL will do the biggest bang on speed. Cleaning your pc of temp internet files & cookies will help your speed since they won't be clogging your DSL with phoneing home.\n\nSo to sum it up... clean your pc & get the 512 upgrade. You will notice a performance boost from both. If you really want to get faster dump IE & just use Firefox for browseing. Your DSL might want you to log on with IE, but you can still open up browser pages with Firefox. Firefox runs faster because it is not bogged down with all kinds of stuff you don't need. You can pick your options from it's extensions (faster fox, no script, customize google are few good ones to use) it's also less susceptible to holes and problems like IE is.\n\nps. Just saw your note - 2ghz celeron is fast enough - if you are just surfing, emailing & doing basic stuff on your pc its fine. If you are into games or other performance intensive uses then you might want a faster processor. Though if you are surfing & maybe bookkeeping or writing reports (or whatever) keeping your pc clean & the 512 will help the most. I'd also recommend your looking up "blackviper" on google (some sites still post the info) he had an excellent tutorial on what MS has running in the background on your pc by default, what it is and the safety of shutting it down. Stopping unneeded programs this way, msconfig and other tools does lot's for performance. You can have the fastest car, but if you are running the air, lights on & a generator out of the cigarette lighter, your gonna take a performance hit. & Check out this link for better info on keeping your pc clean. \n\nIt's alot of info, but once you try it - you'll see it's not difficult at all.
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It depends on what you mean by speed.  If your computer seems to be running slow, the frist thing to do is to clean out all those junk files and old registry entries, I like using CCleaner, http://www.ccleaner.com/ and while it cannot make your computer faster TuneXP can make your computer "feel" faster by optimizing Windows, http://www.driverheaven.net/dforce/default.php after that there are a number of tweaks explained here, http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/blog/_archives/2005/12/5/1434755.html and here, http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/blog/_archives/2006/1/12/1658713.html, follow the instructions to the letter but TuneXP will have already applied some of those tweaks but not all of them.  Also, to get your PC booting faster, set your hard drive as the first boot device (through the BIOS) and then get BootVis, http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664 BootVis was a program designed by Microsoft to cold boot Windows XP in less than 30 seconds (I got mine down to 25 seconds without disabling any major components/drivers).  Of course my PC is also faster than the average.\n\nUnless your motherboard supports it, you might be able to overclock your CPU (AMD processors are very overclockable in most cases) but if your motherboard doesn't support it, don't try it.  My Gigabyte motherboard came with EasyTune 5 so I used that to test overclocking and my Athlon 64 3700+ is overclocked to 2.6GHz (stock heatsink/fan) up from 2.2GHz.  It's fast...\n\nAlso, consider defragging your hard drive, either with Diskeeper (my personal favorite) or the one that is built into Windows, my personal opinion is that Diskeeper does a better job but it cannot defrag the paging file.  In order to defrag the paging file you will need to get a free program called PageDefrag, http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PageDefrag.html which will be run at boot time.  The paging file cannot be defragged while you are in Windows.  Diskeeper is not free by the way but they do have the freeware Diskeeper Lite floating around out there, though it is no longer officially supported or available on the Diskeeper site, you really have to look for it.
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Yes you can.\n\nIf you are using Window's go into the BIOS and set it to boot that first. (in few cases you don't need to change anything, but do this if doing nothing doesn't work)
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Have you tried booting in Safe Mode and seeing if you've got anything there?\nTo get into Safe Mode repeatedly press the F8 key after the bios screen loads but before Windows loads. You'll know if you made it because the screen will be at 800 x 600 and your pc will be slow.
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get another 256 mb of ram, you can fasten the right click speed, go to run and type in regedit, there, you have to set the time from 400 to anything arround 25 to 75, try it, but do carefully, as it may corroupt your os,
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it looks like ur processor with 433 MHz is too slow for running Win XP..\n\nfollw these steps to get the maximum performance it can give:\n\n-- Run Disk Clean Up for each drive every day.. it can be found in the start>programs>accessories>system tools..\n\n-- Run Disk Defragmenter for each drive once in a week.. it too can be found under start>programs>accessories>system tools.. this may take hours..\n\n-- Run Error Check(Scan Disk) for each drive.. Right click the drive icon.. take properties.. inside the 'Tool' tab it will be found..\n\n-- Check for unused programs that are installed in the system and remove if any..  this can be done using Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs..\n\n-- Right click My Computer.. take properties.. take 'Advanced' tab.. take 'Settings' under 'Performance' section.. choose 'Adjust for best performance' button.. apply the changes..\n   take 'System Restore' tab in the same window.. select 'Turn off system restore on all drives'.. apply the changes..\n   take 'Automatic updates' tab.. choose 'Turn off automatic updating'..(This step is not a must)..\n   click ok..\n\n-- Take Start>Run, type msconfig.. a window will pop-up.. inside that take statup tab.. check for unwanted startup intems and uncheck it all.. it requires restarting of the system..\n\nrestart your system.. now it will give the maximum performance it can.. good luck..
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There is a program called Quick Startup that disables some startup programs. I used it and my computer loads a lot faster.
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ALL computers will begin to run slower and slower as time progresses because of a number of reasons! Viruses, spy-ware, fragmented files, accumulated programs that start up everytime you boot (you might not even know they are there), maxed out storage space, etc. The key to keeping a computer running like it did when it was new is “housekeeping”!\n\nFirst, do everything you can to clean-up your machine:\n\n1.Remove everything that is just “junk” on your machine.\n2.Make sure you are not running unnecessary programs or processes. You can double check this by running a start-up manager program. A free one is available at:\n\nhttp://www.windowsstartup.com/\n\n3.Run your anti-virus program.\n4.Run your spy-bot program.\n5.Run your ad-aware program.\n6.Defragment your hard drive. This is a really critical thing.\n\nWhen your machine is “lean and mean” like it was when it was new you may be back up to speed.\n\nIt’s kind of like a pick-up truck! You can only put just so much in the bed before it is full (or overloaded) and it will just barely move!
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Whoa! Before you go the expense of more ram memory, keep in mind the following. ALL computers will begin to run slower and slower as time progresses because of a number of reasons! Viruses, spy-ware, fragmented files, accumulated programs that start up everytime you boot (you might not even know they are there), maxed out storage space, etc. The key to keeping a computer running like it did when it was new is “housekeeping”!\n\nFirst, do everything you can to clean-up your machine:\n\n1.Remove everything that is just “junk” on your machine.\n2.Make sure you are not running unnecessary programs or processes. You can double check this by running a start-up manager program. A free one is available at:\n\nhttp://www.windowsstartup.com/\n\n3.Run your anti-virus program.\n4.Run your spy-bot program.\n5.Run your ad-aware program.\n6.Defragment your hard drive. This is a really critical thing.\n\nWhen your machine is “lean and mean” like it was when it was new you may be back up to speed.\n\nIt’s kind of like a pick-up truck! You can only put just so much in the bed before it is full (or overloaded) and it will just barely move!
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just install a video card, or you can manually disable it in the BIOS of your motherboard\n\nwhen you computer is booting hit DEL at the initial boot screen after the system check.
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If your BIOS supports it will work. Go to BIOS (when starting up press F2) Go to start up or booting, put whatever you want it to boot to first. Just one thing to be aware of. This will not be as fast as a normal hard drive.
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The following steps should speed up your PC:\n\n1. Run Disk clean-up. Then delete unused files. (start>program>accessories>sys... tools> disk clean-up)\n2. Check for disk errors. (right click on a disk-drive>properties>tools >error checking, then restart)\n3. Run disk defragmenter.\n4. Delete cookies. (you can do it from your browser options: tools>internet options)\n5. Delete cache or temporary files. (you can do it from your browser options) or, click on 'start", 'run', type 'temp' then click ok. Whatever shows up, just delete.\n6. Delete all history files. (you can do it from your browser options, or, CTRL + H, then delete)\n7. Empty recycle bin.\n8. Delete unused icons & short-cuts from anywhere including desktop.\n9. Uninstall any software or game that you use only once or twice in a week.\n10. Delete temporary internet files. (you can do it from your browser options: tools>internet options)\n11. Delete all recent files. (click on start, click run, then type "recent", delete all the files which show up)\n12. Run a full virus scan. If any threat found, eliminate that completely.\n13. Run a software which can remove any spyware or adware.\nLike: Ad Aware, Windows defender etc.\nhttp://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10399602.html?tag=lst-0-1\nhttp://www.download.com/Microsoft-Windows-Defender/3000-12771_4-10598014.html?tag=lst-0-1\n\nIf you did these all at the same time, restart your computer. All these to be done once in a week if possible, depending on the frequency of use of your PC.\n\n* Updating: (Needed only when updates are available)\n14. Update your Windows by installing latest updates.\n15. Update your audio & video drivers.\n16. Update softwares, browsers, games that you use.\n\nSoftwares to make your PC run faster:\n\n1. CCleaner (http://www.download.com/CCleaner/3000-2144_4-10592746.html?tag=lst-0-1)\n2. Registry Cleaner (http://www.download.com/Registry-Cleaner/3000-2094_4-10503633.html)\n3. Ashampoo (http://www.download.com/Ashampoo-WinOptimizer-Platinum/3000-2086_4-10599871.html?tag=lst-4-4))\n4. Advanced Uninstaller (http://www.download.com/Advanced-Uninstaller-Pro-2006/3000-2096_4-10608147.html?tag=lst-4-10)
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Try this little gadget \nArrange startup\n\nfrom here......http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?tg=dl-20&qt=arrange%20startup&tag=srch
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Try the msconfig utility\nClick on Start and then Run\nType in: msconfig\nIn the window that opens go to the startup tab\nYou will see everything being loaded when your computer is booted.  That System32 window should be one of them.  Simply uncheck it and it will not load in the future.  If you do the wrong one, just re-check it.\n\nWhile there, you may want to uncheck any other things loading that you can live without.  The fewer things loaded here, the faster your PC will run.