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Speed Up Vista Boot Times on Multicore Systems
Posted by Fred on Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
As I was browsing the internet last night I came across a great article detailing a way to speed up the boot times on Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system. My startup experiences with this relatively new Vista notebook have been favorable, but have tended toward the sluggish side of things recently; thus, I gave it a shot. In short, the fix involves opening msconfig, a Windows utility commonly used for managing startup, and changing a setting in the control panel to let the system use more than one core when it starts up.
Much to my surprise, when I started my PC this morning I enjoyed a noticeably faster startup... in the range of around 50% of the time it usually takes. Awesome! I figured this tip was worth sharing for anyone out there who uses Vista.
Some controversy seems to be surrounding these articles now, particularly around allegations that Vista does not automatically use all available processing cores to speed up its boot times. Even if Vista does make use of all the available processing power, I found that changing this setting did in fact provide a significant boost to my startup times.
Article: http://gizmodo.com/5019215/how-to-make-windows-vista-boot-faster-with-multiple-cores
Update: Articles on this subject seem to be disappearing quite rapidly. Thus the links provided may be broken when you try them. Although the authors of the articles contend that this hack doesn't actually do anything, I have still noticed performance enhancements on restart. It may not work for all, but I think it's definitely worth giving a shot! Let me know in the comments if the links are broken when you try them. I may need to eventually re-type a tutorial.
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