Speeding Up the System Boot
With the exception of Windows Vista, the boot speed has improved with every version of Windows. Developing Windows 7, Microsoft set a goal of reducing the boot time to 15 seconds. I would say that they got very close. If you have the latest hardware and a high speed solid state disk you can reduce the time to less than 15 seconds, but for the majority of users there is room for improvement.
This tutorial shows you some tips and tweaks you can use to improve the boot performance further. It also shows you how to focus on reducing the workload put on your hardware and ways to improve the reading of data from your storage device.
In this tutorial:
- Working with the BIOS
- Changing the Boot Order of Your Drives
- Using Quick Boot Feature of the BIOS
- Modifying the Operating System Boot
- Windows Boot Manager
- Setting the Default OS
- Disabling the System Boot Screen
- Disabling Unneeded Hardware Devices
- Removing Extra Fonts for Speed
- Disabling Unneeded Services
- Disabling Services with the Services Utility
- Optimizing the Location of the Boot Files
- Using Other Third-Party Boot Defrag Programs
