Some Easy Guide Lines to Decrease the Start up Time

28 03 2010

Some easy tips to improve the Windows Start Time

Specialist software like a registry cleaner is required so that some of the Windows tips could be followed. While others can easily be done with the help of tools provided by Windows.

Before doing anything, it is important for you to ascertain that you reach the same place from where you have started the process (initial point). In case things turn wrong. For this, it is very essential to set a System Restore Point.

You can initiate the process with the easy stuff

Are all those fonts that have been installed by various programs used by you really required? In case they arent, then you should remove the fonts that are of no use.

Take help of free font manager to complete this task.

Whenever your computer will start, other applications will also begin to run with it.

Welcoming antivirus software, firewall, etc. are some of them.

The remaining programs come under the category of: our software developer assumes you may always require the programs present without starting them on your own.

Programs including iTunes, Skype, webcam software, some sort of an instant messenger service, the keylogger installed to keep an eye on the naughty activities of children, Adobe Acrobat readers update service.

It is convenient to have their all-time availability.

Few of them could be seen next to your system clock, at the bottom of the screen. Other programs wil hide away and show only upon checking the Task Manager.

Here, the Windows Msconfig program will help you by helping you in checking and eliminating such programs. You will get to see the list of autoloading applications through Startup tab. In fact, the autoloading applications become active every time the computer boots up.

However, there is a big trouble with msconfig. It doesnt provide much detailed information. So, a great deal of research is required to know if the programs listed by it are the one really needed by your PC or are merely “nice to have” programs.

Next, there is the Windows Registry.

Applications use the Windows Registry as a dumping ground or storage area.

Windows Registry apparently stores each and everything.

Generally, it is where the last opened files on the menus are kept or stored. It also stores your favorite applications’ size and startup position. As having excessive fonts retards the systems loading, similar is the effect of having excessive stuff in registry which is no longer in use and prevents you from having a fast Windows XP .

Even though it is feasible to clean up Windows registry through built-in Regedit program (similar steps are to be followed as in case of Msconfig), you need great tolerance level. In case anything goes wrong, Windows working may get disrupted or it may even stop to work. Hence, let the software to perform the task.

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