[closed] Decrease Windows 7 Boot Time?

I don't know what to tell you because my specs are:

Intel Pentium D 915 @2.8GHz

2GB of DDR2 @ 800MHz Dual-Channel

Western Digital 250GB 7,200 RPM

9400GT Dual-DVI

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit

And my boot time is around 30-40 seconds. My specs are slow, it is time for me to get a new computer.

You can try going to Computer Management, and turning off processes that don't need to load up and don't even need to be running. This was a great thing in XP to do, and really, truly helped speed up the OS and help it run more smooth, and fast.

SEARCH THIS ON GOOGLE...IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT A PROCESS DOES OR DOESN'T DO, DO NOT CHANGE IT!

I'm guessing this is the 1TB version, personally I always run the os (windows) on a separate small partition, that way you can often get maximum boot time and the most speed from the hdd.

I'd personally be running some 1600mhz ram for that board and that cpu especially as it's so cheap these days.

If you can invest in one then put windows on an ssd and use the 1tb drive for applications. Beg one for xmas.

Finally make sure your pagefile is set. I'm sure u've done it but set to 2 - 3gb. I'm sure win will prob tell you to do 4gb, then do 4gb

Then do all ur housekeeping, defrag, full scan disk.

That's about all I got for you. But windows is a bloated os. It does take a while to wake up.

2 minutes is still quite good. It's all a matter of how many products are set to start with the computer. To better understand what's going on during boot see "Soluto – Anti Frustration Software" at http://www.soluto.com/.

Alexz answer to What's your boot time

faster hard drive/faster memory with faster FSB if needed...

but that cost money... if you have windows 7 pro you could change start up services under the administrator page, but you should get a website to reference what ones are not needed

Of coarse a fast SSD will dramatically cut your boot times if thats your bottleneck however a lot of your boot is related also to how your computer posts, if post takes you a minute before the drive is even being accessed than Windows wouldn't be where the blame lays. Check in your BIOS and make sure that your HDD is your first boot deviceif it isn't, change it and pop it to the top of the list. Also make sure that if your board has a quick memory check at startup that it isn't enabled as this is rarely useful, and even more rarely more useful tha memtest+. Lastly make sure that the settings by default are corrwect for ALL of your components, low voltages and poor timings equate to bad performance and sometimes instability and sometimes SPD just simply doesn't get it right, you might have some OC headrooom as far as temps go goosing the CPUv may give you the edge you need to bump up your FSB a bit.

I have a laptop: AMD Athlon II X2 M300 2.0Ghz 3gb ddr2 320gb 5400rpm harddrive I takes roughly 30secs to boot up and thats with many programs at start up. look into reinstalling Windows 7.