Asked By
uruhara
100 points
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Posted on - 04/26/2011
I was wondering how can you speed up your boot up time?
I've been experiencing sluggishness with my PC.
Answered By
tilaps
200 points
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#88621
How to speed up my PC upon booting?
It's a very general question. So both boot up and system performance is slow? What specs do you have? And what programs are running? Does it happen all the time?
Answered By
qbpro
210 points
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#88623
How to speed up my PC upon booting?
You also might have a virus. Have done a virus scan lately? Make sure the definitions are updated.
Answered By
uruhara
100 points
N/A
#88625
How to speed up my PC upon booting?
It's Core i5-2400, 4GB DDR3 RAM, WD 2TB SATA 2, OS windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I am into programming and web development, so I run a lot of programs/apps at the same time. Overall speed of the machine is great. I'm specifically worried about the boot up, its taking longer than my old PC and both run about the same amount of programs. I just did a scan and it did not find anything odd.
Answered By
tilaps
200 points
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#88626
How to speed up my PC upon booting?
That's a pretty good setup, sandy bridge CPU's are fast. Anyhow, have you tried checking your startup?
1. Click Start.
2. Type in "msconfig."
3. Go to the STARTUP tab.
4. Uncheck any programs which you do not need to run when your machine starts up. You can also simply uncheck any unknown programs, or programs which you are unfamiliar with.
5. Click Apply, then OK.
6. Restart your PC.
See if there are any improvements when you boot up.
Answered By
uruhara
100 points
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#88627
How to speed up my PC upon booting?
Hi Tilaps,
I tried your suggestion and did remove some programs from the startup entries, seems to improve a bit. I also did find some interesting programs which are not supposed to be there as well. How they got there I have no idea. I guess I need a better AV/AS for my rig.
Uruhara
Answered By
qbpro
210 points
N/A
#88628
How to speed up my PC upon booting?
You may want to try and do a scan using other antivirus software and/or do a check on your hard drive for bad clusters or it just might be fragmented.
Recommended Antivirus:
1. Avira.
2. Ad ware Antivirus.
3. Malware bytes Anti-Malware.
To do a check on your HDD:
1. Open My Computer.
2. Right click the HDD in question.
3. Properties.
4. Tools.
5. Check for errors, then do a defragment.
See how it goes.
How to speed up my PC upon booting?
Hi Uruhara
Check out this Techyv post "How to boot up the system fast?" here you will get more simple tips to make your PC run faster.
