How to speed up the boot process in Vista ?
A Simple PC tweak to speed up Vista startup.
Here’s a useful yet very simple tip for readers running Windows Vista on their PCs. By default, Windows Vista waits 30 seconds during the startup process before loading the operating system. You can safely decrease that time considerably, and thus speed up Vista boot time.
Here’s a quick procedure that help you speeding windows vista startup:
- Click the Windows Start button
- Right click Computer
- Click Properties
- Click Advanced System settings
- In the Advanced Tab, Start and Recovery, click Settings
- In the Time to display operating systems list setting, set a 5 second value instead of 30.
- Click Apply
Now, Reboot your PC. You’ll notice a boost in the performance of the startup process.
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This 30 sec delay is only if you have multiple operating systems. It WILL NOT speed up the load time if Windows Vista is the only operating system.
This is not accurate. Changing the option specified only speeds up the system when multiple OSs are installed, Vista is the boot loader, (instead of GRUB, or other boot loaders) and Vista is set as the default OS to boot into.
Brian, your wrong. It speeds it up because the boot parameters aren’t as clotted and the OS isn’t lagging to find it. There are start up benchmarks that prove this microsoft glitch.
Also enabling 2 processors in msconfig shaves your start time.
Its a glitch,and it seems illogical but its true.